Nursing Care Plan Help

what was your nursing diagnostic statement? deficient fluid volume and telling us the medical diseases isn't enough information for me to help you. noc is nursing outcomes classifications and nic is nursing interventions classifications. these are lists of outcomes and nursing interventions. when you say "fluid balance" you are referring to the noc outcomes and nic interventions linkage of "fluid balance" (0602) water balance in the intracellular and extracellular compartments of the body. " fluid balance" is one of the links suggested to be used with the nursing diagnosis of deficient fluid volume. your instructor must feel that the aeb items in your diagnostic statement closely meet the definition of "fluid balance" and the interventions listed in the nic manual. you need a copy of nursing interventions classification (nic), by joanne mccloskey mccloskey dochterman, gloria m. bulechek, gloria m. bulechek in order to see what the specific nursing interventions are that are listed for "fluid balance". of course, a great deal has to do with the cues (defining characteristics) that support your nursing diagnosis of deficient fluid volume. remember that your nics are often aimed at treating the defining characteristics (symptoms of the problem). since you didn't post what those were it is hard to determine if "fluid balance" is appropriate or not for this care plan. the nursing problem, deficient fluid volume, is based upon the abnormal assessment data that you have that proves the problem exists. what is that data? your nursing interventions often target the abnormal data. the outcome often deals with the predicted result of your interventions and sometimes, if there is any way, with the etiology of the problem can be altered.

other noc and nic linkages that can possibly be used with deficient fluid volume are:

• electrolyte & acid/base balance
  
• hydration
  
• nutritional status: food & fluid intake
  
• appetite
  
• blood loss severity
  
• bowel elimination
  
• cognition
  
• knowledge: medication
  
• nausea & vomiting severity
  
• thermoregulation
  
• urinary elimination
  

if what i am saying is not making any sense to you, let me know so i can explain more to you about what is going on.

Since you have the NOC and NIC books did you look at what was listed with Fluid Managment and Fluid Monitoring? Since the patient had diarrhea and GI bleeding, why aren't you considering Blood Loss Severity or Bowel Elimination? Why not the Urinary Elimination because of the decreased urine output? I wouldn't have listed decreased urine output as an AEB. I would have re-written it as increased urine concentration. Sometimes its how you write it.