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Thank you so much for your input I will refer to this often I'm sure. I do have a couple of outdated care plan books and I will get the most up to date one. Our instructor will not permit us to use a care plan book until next semester, so all I have been using is my Fundamentals of Nursing book (Taylor) and the Med-Surge book (Iggy). I think she has completely forgotten that she was in my shoes at one time because she gives no extra insight on anything except her red ink all over my care plans lol. Thank you again for your help I'm sure you will hear from me often(at least this year) until I get the hang of these things. Thank you bunches.

Hello everyone I am a first year nursing student and I stalk this web page often to get ideas on how to do things since my instructor tells me to look it up in the book. I am having issues with my care plan. Here goes My patient is 32 presented in the ER with severe abdominal pain. Long story short. He was admitted and had small bowel obstruction. He has been NPO for three days NG tube in place, constipated and not passing gas at all. He has been ambulating 4x a day up and down the halls to get things moving along but nothing. Anyways I have to do 2 problems on him and I chose :Impaired skin integrity R/T interruption of skin and tissues, AEB vertical abdominal incision. I was trying to do Constipation R/T decreased motility AEB, abdominal distention and no bowel movement for 3 days. Most of the things to assess for are for patients that are not NPO like my patient. How can I assess things such as eating pattern, fluid intakes, elimination pattern etc.... please I need advise I have been thinking about this for too long and now it is due tomorrow 8 a.m. I did do my second problem on nutrition more than body requirements but I was told his obesity is not important. Thank you candace