Research paper over Alzheimer's

Undone · Mar 20, 2015

Is an Alzheimers patients going to be moving around in the same way as a healthy person? Would that affect their musculoskeletal system? Would venous blood return the same in a bedridden patient as it would in one that is up and about? If that patient were to become bedridden, would peristalsis be affected? Is the nervous system affected, if so in what way ? Would they eat and drink normally, could a change in nutrition affect their integumentary system?

You have to start by asking yourself questions like these in order to find nursing diagnosis that fit.

Good luck, these assignments can be a pain, but they do help with learning to put things together.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Mar 20, 2015

The main problem I am having is finding nursing diagnoses related to each system.

That's because nursing diagnoses don't come from medical diagnoses, they come from nursing assessments.

I realize you don't have a real patient to assess, so your next step is to read a LOT about Alzheimer's and specifically identify how those patients appear, behave, and "work," and then look through your NANDA-I 2015-2017 to see how those nursing findings match up with nursing diagnoses in the areas you describe.

Note that "care planning handbooks" that are organized by medical diagnosis are a lousy way to learn about making nursing diagnosis.

I completely agree with Undone that this is not as easy an assignment as you probably expected it to be (i.e., look up medical diagnosis, look up body system, copy down nursing diagnosis, NEXT...) but you will learn a lot from it if you do it properly as described.