Nsg Dx for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma?

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hx: metastatic renal cell carcinoma, non-hodgkin's, L side DVT and IVC thrombosis, HTN, GERD, insomnia..

he's got a lot going on :o

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

any suggestions?

look up information about your patient's medical diseases/conditions to learn about the signs and symptoms and pathophysiology. diagnosing is the result of logical problem determination. it requires you to break down information you obtain from the patient's medical history, physical examination, and laboratory tests and reassemble it into patterns that fit well-defined groupings of symptoms that describe nursing diagnoses. you use your knowledge of the person's diseases and their treatment, the nursing process and a nursing diagnosis reference to help you.

use the websites on this thread to help you:

if you are still having trouble figuring out your patient's nursing problems, post a list of their signs and symptoms so i can help you. i can't do much with a list of medical diagnoses and a statement that "he's got a lot going on".

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His major thing is fatigue followed by immobility, pain, irritability, depression, social isolation, malnutrition

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Depression and malnutrition are medical diagnoses. There are no nursing diagnosis equivalents for them. You have to break them down into their signs and symptoms and the ones that the patient has will help determine the nursing diagnoses that would apply.

Fatigue, immobility, pain, and social isolation are nursing diagnoses. Immobility and pain can be more specific since there are several types of each of them (consult a nursing diagnosis reference to decide which is appropriate for this patient).

In what context are you meaning irritability? It has several meanings.

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