need help w/nursing dx's!!!!

[studentnurse_02]

hi. i have a pt. tomorrow who was admitted for

declotting of dialysis graft. i could not come up w/any nursing diagnoses whatsover.. can someone

help..please!!!!!!!!!

[KC CHICK]

Does your patient have any other way, at this time, to get his dialysis treatment??? If not, then *Fluid Volume Excess and *Electrolyte imbalance might work for you. (This patient's kidneys cannot remove or retain electrolytes and/or fluids.....probly on strict, minimal fluids.)

Does the existing clot have to be removed surgically?? Could use *Risk for infection.

Think of the pathophysiology of what his medical dx is....what is causing the probs???.....that always made it easier for me during school.

Do you have a nursing dx book?? Some will show what nursing dx's correspond with given medical dx's. I have one, which I have now loaned to another nsg student, that helped me immensly during school.