salad725

A great resource is the Nursing Diagnoses Handbook (8th) edition by Ackley and Ladwig. But I would think Pain (acute) r/t frontal headache secondary to fall amb "patient complains of headache". Maybe Risk for injury r/t confusion (or Hx of falls). Depending if her confusion is chronic or acute, maybe from the recent fall, I may choose Acute confusion. Choosing nursing diagnoses is all about what you are going to do (or did) to care for that patient. Hope I helped! Good Luck!

Hi. I am trying to do a pathophysiology concept map and then a care plan for on one of my patients. I am struggling with pulling the pertinent info from a plethra of diseases, medications, procedures and deciding what to link to his current condition. I can't of course list them all, but he was dx with an incarcerated ventral wall hernia, I cared for him post-op, he has a urostomy, from a ileal conduit and a transverse colonostomy, large surgical wound, DM, heart disease, 27 meds, developmental impairment etc. I am not finding a lot of patho on this particular type of hernia if any one has a reference for me. But also advice on going from an overwehlming amount of info and breaking it down enough to be manageable. Maybe just advice on concept mapping! I would appriciate any advice. Thanks!