Desperately Need Help With Care Plans

Nursing Students Student Assist Nursing Q/A

Any help with care plans will be appreciated?

Purchase the book called "All-in-ONE CARE PLANNING RESCOURSE" It cover; Medical-surgical, pediatric, Maternity, and psychiotric Nursing Care Plans. It 's author is Swearingen and it's IBS is: 0-232-01953-6. It should cover anything you would need to know.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
rkdlpn said:
I need to see a care plan !

There are plenty of links to samples of care plans posted here on this thread. You are not always going to find samples of student care plans. I think the main reason is because of the fear of plagiarism. No one wants their hard work to be stolen. Not only that, but there is a patient privacy element to consider as well. The nursing care plan books that are organized by medical diagnosis contain care plans that almost always also include the rationales for the nursing interventions which is probably one of the things you are interested in seeing. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care, 7th Edition, by Betty J. Ackley and Gail B. Ladwig includes rationales for the nursing interventions under each nursing diagnosis and extensive references for each rationale. Some of these are also posted on their care plan constructor site. The links to these constructor sites are included in this thread on post #92. Each of these online care plan constructor sites (the Ackley/Ladwig site and the Gulanick/Myers site) contain 50+ different nursing diagnoses pages. Each nursing diagnosis page has much of the same information that is in each authors book. The constructor sites themselves are also meant to format the information you choose or input into a skeleton form which you then print out. Most nursing schools, however, require a much more comprehensive format than what these constructor sites have to offer. The major information I see in them is the actual nursing diagnosis information from their books which is offered online for free.

There are a number of Internet website links where you can view care plans. They are posted on this thread in the following posts: #20, #26, #34, #35, #56, #78 (case studies), #113. Go to those posts, click on the links and you will be taken to those sites to view those care plans.

There is a great deal of information about writing care plans and about care plans, in general, on this thread. Many have contributed to it to make it so. Please, take the time to review the information available to you here. There are some real gems of information that will help you tremendously in understanding the care plan writing process. I would also encourage you to post any questions you have about care plans or a specific care plan you are working on. Questions about care plans are posed all the time on this particular forum, not this thread in particular.

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

Hi, negrita!

The care plan process always starts with the data that you have collected (Step #1 of the nursing process). From that data you make a list of the abnormal, or the things you discovered that are not normal. These things become the symptoms, or patient's defining characteristics (NANDA language), that will help you to determine that Impaired Skin Integrity is the correct nursing diagnosis to be using (Step #2 of the nursing process).

Please list these abnormal symptoms for me, so I can help you with this.

Welcome to allnurses! :welcome:

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
negrita said:
Ct had a femoral/poplital bypass. client past helath history is HTN And DVT.

I don't think you are understanding me. What you have responded with are medical diagnoses. This is of no help. A care plan addresses the problems your patient has. These problems are based upon abnormal assessment data, not medical diagnoses. For example, since the patient had a femoral/popliteal bypass I would assume that there is an incision. Are there any problems with the incision? Does the patient currently have any open skin ulcers on the affected lower limb? If so, what is the description of them? Is there any pedal or lower leg edema? Any changes in sensation? Did you assess the patient's ability to perform ADLs? Can the patient walk? The answers to these questions are potential abnormal assessment data that need to be known in order to design and work nursing interventions into a care plan. While Impaired Skin Integrity is one possible diagnosis there is a possibility based on the little bit of medical diagnosis information you have supplied that the patient might also have Ineffective Tissue Perfusion, peripheral and Decreased Cardiac Output. However, I can't verify that without knowing your assessment data. Is this a real patient or a non-existent subject of a case study assigned by your instructor?

i would like to but we were just given this situation :

patient name (age, religion, location) was admitted at the hospital due to multiple fracture and lacerations after an mva. 1 hr pta, pt was with her bf driving along the highway at 150 kph when suddenly, her bf lost control of the motorbike.

patient was thrown 15 m away. residents near the accident site brought them to the er. her bf was pronounced doa while patient was rushed to or. upon initial visit to patient, you observed that both legs have casts. multiple lacerations and contussions are observed on her fae and all over her body. patient doesnt want to eat or talk to anyone. she wasnt able to take anything by mouth since her operation. V/S revealed

t - 38.6

p - 95 bpm

r - 19 cpm

bp - 130/90

for certain, the patient has the following probs - she cant move, she won't eat (im uncertain as to whether how long it has been between her operation and the 'today' of the situation and whether she has an IV or not and whether this would be enough for the moment to sustain her nutritional needs) and she has a fever.

given that situation, we are supposed to come up with a care plan and a discharge plan. :(

anyone there who could help me to make a Nursing Care Plan about lady partsl bleeding and threatened abortion. i dont have any books about Care Plans.

pls help me. i dont have any reference thats why i dont know how to make a care plan. pls help me. my deadline is tomorrow

Can anyone help me with 2 nursing diagnosis relating to pneumonia? I choose activity intolerance and infection.

Scenario: Female (36), fever, shortness of breath on occasion with frequent and productive cough. Wheezes in both LL.She has been sick for 3 weeks, cries easily and several bruises on both forearms

Diagnosis:

1. Elevated body temp r/t illness emb vital sign

2. Ineffective breathing r/t airway obstruction emb productive cough and lung sounds

3. Anxiety r/t illness emb pt's crying.

The question is what about bruises, I think it from previous treatment?

How do I state it?

Interesting on what you have said about asthma. I am little curious to know what kind of the lab work would be done on asthma? What how this lab work would differ from normal lab works.

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
nikks said:
Scenario: Female (36), fever, shortness of breath on occasion with frequent and productive cough. Wheezes in both LL.She has been sick for 3 weeks, cries easily and several bruises on both forearms

Diagnosis:

1.Elevated body temp r/t illness emb vital sign

2.Ineffective breathing r/t airway obstruction emb productive cough and lung sounds

3.Anxiety r/t illness emb pt's crying.

The question is what about bruises, I think it from previous treatment?

How do I state it?

Risk for Infection R/T traumatized tissue on both forearms

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