post operative signs of incomplete reversal

Double-Helix, BSN, RN · May 29, 2012

Hi emilytsay,

We are happy to help you with your homework and questions, but we do ask that you do your own critical thinking and research first. It's very easy to get other people to answer the questions for you, but ultimately it will serve you much better in your nursing career if you learn how to look these things up and think through them on your own. Once you have done this, you're welcome to come back and post your thoughts and answers and we will be more than happy to give you our thoughts or help point you in the right direction if you're still having trouble.

So what do you think? What might alert you (as the nurse) that the patient's reversal was incomplete?

Here's some hints to get your started:

1. What did your patient have reversed?

2. If the reversal was successful, what signs would you expect to see? Which of these signs would be different/missing if the reversal was not successful?

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · May 29, 2012

An incomplete reversal of.......their colostomy? Anesthesia? An incomplete reversal of what? We are happy to help with homework but we need to know what we are answering.

As Ashley said we LOVE helping but we need to know what you think. As you well know by now, as you draw close to your graduation,that critical thinking skills are the most important aspect to your nursing career. Tell us what you think and we will help you figure this out. Soon you will be on your own and we want you to be the best nurse you can be!

If This is anesthesia we are taking about....What was the agent used? How would you find that out? Were paralytics given?

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Jun 1, 2012

your question is not clear. However, what was baseline and how does the patient compare to that now?

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Jun 1, 2012

reversal of what? anesthesia agents? sexual identity? hair color? pc to mac? :jester:

welcome to an! we are here to help. however: we do not do your homework for you. you are in nursing school to learn how to be a nurse; asking someone for the answers like this is not learning. if you tell us, "i have this and this nursing diagnoses because my patient has these things going on and i found thus and such on my examination, but i'm confused about...." then we'll really work hard to help you understand. or if you said, "my nursing text says a, b, and c, but my lab text says d, e, and f, so which one is it?" we could help you see the reasons for that.

but going on an online nursing forum and saying, "give me three nursing diagnoses, two actual diagnoses and one risk diagnoses and also the nursing care plan and two priority needs" by tonight (!) is not what your faculty had in mind when they made this assignment.

nurses have to keep learning their whole professional lives. one of the things you are supposed to learn in nursing school is how to learn, that is, how to find out what you have to know. reading reference books, looking in the textbooks you're assigned, and so forth...you will be doing that forever. this is how it starts.

if all you do about learning new things is "go to the keyboard and hit send," then you are limiting your chances of actual learning a valuable skill you will need all your working life. an is not "ask jeeves."

so, op: what have you learned so far that we can help explain?