BPBomber

Thank you for your help everyone! Here's what I ended up putting together. Nursing care plans still seem to take me soooooooo long to complete. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31610809/Risk%20for%20infection.jpg Esme12 -- I have a weim too!

Hello all; Long time reader/lurker, first time posting. So many here are so knowledgeable and have provided so much help, especially the late Daytonite. So firstly, thank you. My question is, can a nursing diagnosis have more than one risk factor? My patient is a motorcycle crash trauma, 11 days post op from a craniotomy for epidural hematoma. Also sustained a compound comminuted fracture with degloving of the right tibia and fibula. She also is on a foley catheter. I want to use the nursing diagnosis of Risk for Infection. But I'm a bit confused. Would it be incorrect to state "Risk for infection of surgical incision wound, open fracture of RLE, and indwelling catheter r/t disruption of normal tissue integrity and indwelling urinary catheter" It just feels like too many words jammed in there. Thank you! Brian