Daytonite BSN, RN

This is an older thread that still has significance in the nursing field today: I see this posted all the time. I always thought it was someone who deliberately embarrasses or has a tantrum for the express purpose of making the other person feel smal...

The first thing I need to do when I am helping anyone with their care plans is to go through the nursing process (which is what you should have been doing also). It helps organize you. I can't do step #1, the assessment because the patient and his me...

I often go to these websites for information when answering posts. Now, you can go to these websites for information yourself. Many of these sites have good patient teaching materials if you search the sites for them. Use the search boxes, menu bars ...

Step 1 Assessmentdark yellow, odorous urinepale dry skinpoor skin turgordry mucous membranesrefusing liquidsminimal appetite140/98, hr=106weight 102-usually 115thin extremitiesminimal right leg movementunequal palmar grips-right weakerred 2 cm spot o...

for the mother: effective breastfeeding for the baby: effective breastfeeding ineffective thermoregulation r/t immature compensation for changes in environmental temperature risk for infection r/t break in skin integrity at umbilical cord site

I receive chemotherapy and one of my drugs causes the same problem with my feet as well as my hands. I do have to use a walker on the days that my feet as swollen and sore. Your diagnosis: Impaired tissue integrity r/t chemical insult, secondary...

Good diagnoses, but before making any goals, consider what nursing interventions you will order. The reason I recommend this is because your goals are what you expect to happen as a result of the nursing interventions being performed.

Impaired Verbal Communication.

A "risk for" diagnosis almost never is sequenced first because it is not an actual problem. actual problems are always sequenced before potential problems. second, poor tissue perfusion is not an official nanda diagnosis and i have no idea what you m...

Do not mix interventions or goals for the mom with the neonate if the care plan is for the neonate.

Because continuous bubbling means there is a leak in the system and therefore the chest tube is not able to do its job. Yes, it is supposed to bubble, but only on expiration when the lung is releasing air from the pleural space.

Your goals reflect what your interventions would be, so what are your interventions?

The problem is that the care plan is about the mother. You can't mix up mother and baby problems on one care plan.

you posted this on the nursing student discussion forum and i just got finished replying to it. you need to go over there to read the answer. https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/confused-about-this-457358.html - confused about this??

no. you would know that from knowing the course of the disease. you would know that it created the nerve damage and that is why the patient is having pain. the definition of chronic pain is unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from ...

an l&d care plan is no different from a med/surg care plan. you still go through the same process for determining the nursing problems. you are just dealing with a different set of data that involves the gynecological system and the birthing pr...

see this thread for information on how to construct a care plan: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans. all care planning begins with listing out your assessment information, not trying to d...

I assume the patient had shingles at one time. Isn't the neuralgia because of nerve damage? Did you read up on the pathophysiology of this? That would make the diagnosis Chronic pain R/T nerve damage AEB [evidence of patient's pain]. All you have...

i see that you are a new poster on allnurses and that you already posted about this on the nursing student discussion forum. there is a thread that explains how to write care plans that you should be reviewing where the care planning process is gon...

the writing of a care plan follows the steps of the nursing process. the first thing you need to do is to collect together (make a list) all your assessment data of the patient. nursing assessment includes: a health history (review of systems) pe...

Nursing intervention for "Risk for" diagnoses are restricted to: strategies to prevent the problem from happening in the first place monitoring for the specific signs and symptoms of this problem reporting any symptoms that do occur to the doctor o...

a written teaching plan goes something like this: overview: a synopsis about what is going to be taught in the course goal(s): the aim(s) or outcome(s) that you want your learner to achieve as a result of the lesson you plan objectives: the more spe...

first of all, your related factor is inappropriate. a gunshot to the abdomen is not an appropriate etiology (cause) of someone having limitation in independent, purposeful physical movement of the body or of one or more extremities (page 124, nanda ...

A nursing diagnosis reference is not the same as a nursing care plan book. It is a book that contains all the nursing diagnoses, their definitions, defining characteristics and related factors. Diagnosing requires that an assessment of a situation ...

If you read the information on thread Help with Care Plans as suggested above, then what do you think these nursing problems are and that the nursing diagnoses should be? This information "the pt was initially on home care but was admitted for decre...