nursing care plan for neurocysticercosis

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Mar 24, 2012

we won't do your care plan for you but we will be happy to help. what do you have so far? what year are you?

care plans begin with the assessment of the patient. the biggest thing about a care plan is the assessment. the second is knowledge about the disease process. first to write a care plan there needs to be a patient, a diagnosis, an assessment of the patient which includes tests, labs, vital signs, patient complaint and symptoms.

there are many nurses here and many who came before me to this site but one nurse stands out.....daytonite(rip) https://allnurses.com/general-nursing...ns-286986.htmlyou can also use the search on this site to lead you to care plans.

daytonite.

care plan basics:

every single nursing diagnosis has its own set of symptoms, or defining characteristics. they are listed in the nanda taxonomy and in many of the current nursing care plan books that are currently on the market that include nursing diagnosis information. you need to have access to these books when you are working on care plans. there are currently 188 nursing diagnoses that nanda has defined and given related factors and defining characteristics for. what you need to do is get this information to help you in writing care plans so you diagnose your patients correctly.

don't focus your efforts on the nursing diagnoses when you should be focusing on the assessment and the patients abnormal data that you collected. these will become their symptoms, or what nanda calls defining characteristics.

here are the steps of the nursing process and what you should be doing in each step when you are doing a written care plan:

assessment (collect data from medical record, do a physical assessment of the patient, assess adls, look up information about your patient's medical diseases/conditions to learn about the signs and symptoms and pathophysiology)
determination of the patient's problem(s)/nursing diagnosis (make a list of the abnormal assessment data, match your abnormal assessment data to likely nursing diagnoses, decide on the nursing diagnoses to use)
planning (write measurable goals/outcomes and nursing interventions)
implementation (initiate the care plan)
evaluation (determine if goals/outcomes have been met)

a care plan is nothing more than the written documentation of the nursing process you use to solve one or more of a patient's nursing problems. the nursing process itself is a problem solving method that was extrapolated from the scientific method used by the various science disciplines in proving or disproving theories. one of the main goals every nursing school wants its rns to learn by graduation is how to use the nursing process to solve patient problems.

care plan reality: the foundation of any care plan is the signs, symptoms or responses that patient is having to what is happening to them. what is happening to them could be a medical disease, a physical condition, a failure to be able to perform adls (activities of daily living), or a failure to be able to interact appropriately or successfully within their environment. therefore, one of your primary aims as a problem solver is to collect as much data as you can get your hands on. the more the better. you have to be a detective and always be on the alert and lookout for clues. at all times. and that is within the spirit of step #1 of this whole nursing process.

assessment is an important skill. it will take you a long time to become proficient in assessing patients. assessment not only includes doing the traditional head-to-toe exam, but also listening to what patients have to say and questioning them. history can reveal import clues. it takes time and experience to know what questions to ask to elicit good answers. part of this assessment process is knowing the pathophysiology of the medical disease or condition that the patient has. but, there will be times that this won't be known. just keep in mind that you have to be like a nurse detective always snooping around and looking for those clues.

a nursing diagnosis standing by itself means nothing. the meat of this care plan of yours will lie in the abnormal data (symptoms) that you collected during your assessment of this patient. in order for you to pick any nursing diagnoses for a patient you need to know what the patient's symptoms are.

care plan reality: is actually a shorthand label for the patient problem. the patient problem is more accurately described in the definition of this nursing diagnosis (every nanda nursing diagnosis has a definition). [thanks daytonite]

what i would suggest you do is to work the nursing process from step #1. take a look at the information you collected on the patient during your physical assessment and review of their medical record. start making a list of abnormal data which will now become a list of their symptoms. don't forget to include an assessment of their ability to perform adls (because that's what we nurses shine at). the adls are bathing, dressing, transferring from bed or chair, walking, eating, toilet use, and grooming. and, one more thing you should do is to look up information about symptoms that stand out to you. what is the physiology and what are the signs and symptoms (manifestations) you are likely to see in the patient. did you miss any of the signs and symptoms in the patient? if so, now is the time to add them to your list. this is all part of preparing to move onto step #2 of the process which is determining your patient's problem and choosing nursing diagnoses. but, you have to have those signs, symptoms and patient responses to back it all up.

lhiz · Mar 25, 2012

we don't have a patient to assess for me to identify a diagnosis, our professor told us to find one disease related to neurons and do a nursing care plan for it, that's why i choose neurocysticercosis. I have one diagnosis that i formulated for that disease, the Disturbed Sensory Perception related to neurocysticercosis as manifested by visual changes, difficulty with balance and behavioral disturbance.

Please help me to find a nursing care plan for it.

Thank you!!

lhiz · Mar 25, 2012

Please please help me!!

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · Mar 25, 2012

Esme has already given you a great deal of help by providing you with a great list of resources. What she won't do---what none of us will do---is write your care plan for you. Every nurse here has gone through a similar educational process, and it would be a shame to deprive you of this opportunity to learn how to use resources and do research on your own as we all have had to do.

I imagine, however, that some of us would be open to critiquing your care plan once written, and help you develop it further if necessary. :)

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 25, 2012

Look at what you know about the disease and possible nursing outcomes and cares that are required

psu_213, BSN, RN · Mar 25, 2012

So I have never heard of the dz., and I really don't have any good suggestions for a careplan.

I just wanted to mention...what is with all the assignments that are basically "here is a disease, now write a careplan." Assessment data is such a huge part of the careplan (it is impossible to write a full diagnostic statements without that data). The few times in school where we had to 'make up' a careplan without a pt, we were at least given some fake assessment data.

LadyHazy · Mar 29, 2012

Can you help me to find a good nursing care plan for neurocysticercosis it is an infection of the central nervous system by the metacestode larvae of Taenia solium. With a clinical manifestations of seizure,visual changes, behavioral disturbances,nausea,vomiting,headache,confusion,hydrocephalus.
thank you!

As previously mentioned, your nursing care plan -highly- depends on assessment data. If your clinical instructor did not give you assessment data (which totally sucks), you might have to assume scenarios in which the "usual" clinical manifestations are present. This might not be very realistic, though, as not all clinical manifestations are usually present.

Hint? If your "patient" has seizures, you might have at least two nursing diagnoses (What happens during a seizure? Do you remember what you have to do when your patient seizes? Why?) If your patient gets visual changes, you will have perhaps another two (What happens when your patient has visual changes? What might happen to a patient with visual changes?) Behavioral changes? Yet another diagnosis. Nausea and vomiting? You'll have another. And so on. ;D

Good luck!