I am doing a care plan for school and have questions about the "Risk for Complications" collaborative nursing diagnoses.
I have the goal written out, "The nurse will monitor the patient for signs and symptoms of hypokalemia and will collaboratively intervene when necessary to restore physiologic stability."
My questions are as follows,
1. With the goal, do I need to include a specific target date like when doing actual nursing diagnoses? Or should I add "until the patient's serum potassium level reaches 3.5 mEq/L" to make it measurable in some sort of way?
2. As far as evaluating this goes, how would an example of that look? I can't really say the goal was met, partially met, or not met...can I? I know I could provide supporting information such as the patient has not experienced any symptoms of hypokalemia, the patient's serum potassium level is now at 3.2 mEq/L, etc. but I am just unsure of how the evaluation should look.
ashaw720
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Yep. Agreed.