square headed joe

Thank you very much! your post was incredibly helpful and really clarified a lot of things for me :). I think I'll be telling some of my fellow confused classmates to read what you posted to clarify it for them too. I've got an order into amazon for the books, looking forward to getting them. Wish me luck and thanks again that was great!

I was hoping that someone could give me some guidance in coming up with a care plan for a brief case study. I don't have really any experience with care plans and I'm a bit lost as to how to proceed. The case study involves a couple in their 60's that has to commute several hours for the husband's hemodialysis 3 times a week (he has chronic kidney disease). They are fed up with the financial and time commitments that the appointments are causing. The husband has been admitted to the hospital for pulmonary edema and has not been following his 1.5L daily fluid restriction at home. I was thinking of a diagnosis of Ineffective coping related to financial and time commitments of hemodialysis appointments and a second diagnosis of insufficient knowledge regarding chronic kidney failure home care. I was wondering if these fit the situation very well? I'm pretty new to care plans.