Nursing care plan for pneumonia - need help

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Hi

I am a first year nursing student and would like some input on how to write a nursing care plan for pneumonia. I think I am reading too much into it but I am having a hard time. Can someone help?

THanks

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Specializes in long-term-care, LTAC, PCU.

Do you have a care plan book? If not you really need to get one. I know some nursing programs don't let students use care plan books in their care plans, but it will at least get you thinking in the right direction.

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

hi, morski1229. and welcome to allnurses!

please read the information on this thread on how to write a care plan:

i'm assuming this is not a real patient. one of the first things you need to do is look up information about the disease of pneumonia

if you do not have a textbook with any of this information, use the weblinks listed on this thread to help you find it:

next, compile a list of the signs and symptoms of pneumonia.

then, think about some of the problems a person with pneumonia might have with getting their adls (activities of daily living) accomplished: bathing, dressing, transferring from bed to chair, walking, eating, use of the toilet or grooming. the adls that a patient needs assistance with or can't perform by themselves at all are patient problems that would need to become part of the care plan. add any adls that you think might be a problem for a patient with pneumonia to your list of symptoms.

the next task you do is determine your nursing diagnoses based upon the list of symptoms you now have. every nursing diagnosis has a list of symptoms and a patient must have one or more of them. so, you are looking for matches with the symptoms your patient has. you need a nursing diagnosis reference to do this. there are a number of ways to acquire this information.

finally, you are ready to write nursing interventions and outcomes. these specifically address the symptoms on that symptom list with whichever nursing diagnosis they belong with. outcomes/goals are the results you predict will happen when your nursing interventions have been performed. here is a post that explains how to construct a goal statement: https://allnurses.com/forums/2509305-post157.html

good luck. learn lots about pneumonia. it is a very common illness that you will see in hospitalized patients.

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