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Don't focus your efforts on the nursing diagnoses when you should be focusing on the assessment and the patients abnormal data that you collected. These will become their symptoms, or what NANDA calls defining characteristics. How does a doctor ...

Over 17,000 people sustain spinal cord injuries yearly in the United States. This severe and often life-changing condition happens when a sudden, traumatic event injures the tightly-packed bundle of neurons and nerves of the spinal column. Severe spi...

Anyway I would like to choose the top three but I am unsure if ineffective airway clearance is correct or if it is risk for ineffective airway clearance. The reason I am not sure is that even though she is hypoxic and has a cough, the cough is produc...

I feel that I can't get a care plan right, when I do my patient assessment and return to my care plan I'm always missing so many things I did not look for during my assessment so I suck and my care plan. I have problems coming up with interventions m...

First time here. Hopefully you can point me in the right direction. I am a second semester RN student. Our assignment is to create a concept map for a newborn (seems like a care plan) and a concept map for the mom (depending on csect or vaginal). I n...

Ineffective Breastfeeding R/T situational crisis AEB pt verbalization of not being able to breastfeed while her baby is in the NICU. NOC: Pt will use breast pump effectively by the end of shift. NIC: Educate pt on the use of ...

Hey everyone. I have been trying to figure this out for hours now and after consulting with my nursing professor and running through care plan books I am pretty much at the same place I started at and I'm at wits end. Basically here is my situation.....

Table of Contents Overview of Risk for Falls Risk Factors Expected Outcomes Nursing Assessment Interventions and Rationale Risk for Falls Overview A fall is defined (1) as a patient coming to r...

Table of Contents Understanding Obesity Nursing Care Plans More Nursing Diagnoses Obesity NCLEX Questions Readings and Resources Additionally, 50 percent of people surveyed by Harvard University i...

Can someone please help, are the following nursing diagonosis r/t to malnutrition: Muscle weakness r/t to insufficient nutritional intake Risk for ineffective breathing pattern r/t to decreased energy Risk for constipation r/t insuf...

I am working on now my ageing process paper and I cannot find the proper nursing diagnosis for Anxiety with financial issues, I am working with a group on this paper and this is the Nanda project I was given. The scenario is the patient is 99 yrs old...

I have a care plan due this week. I know its short notice but the teacher told us it was due the last week of class but the syllabus states this week so I want to be safe then sorry. I have have no clue what I am doing. When I asked the instructor Ho...

Hey all, I've been working on an A&E assignment lately. I was supposed to come up with the three most important nursing diagnosis for the trauma patient I've taken care in Red Zone. Here are some of the significant findings from primary and ...

I am a student nurse working on a care plan for a patient with the primary diagnosis of intra abdominal abscess. I am having trouble coming up with acceptable nursing diagnoses for this patient. He presented with leg pain and a fever, however th...

Alright, I'm having a hell of a time with this care plan. My patient was relatively healthly prior to having his sigmoid colon removed secondary to diverticulitis. My diagnoses are: Constipation related to use of opoid analgesics and manipulation of ...

I need some help with a care plan I am doing. The diagnosis is impaired skin integrity r/t excretions and/or excretions. The pt has been an inpatient for several months. She originally was admitted for fistula repair, incisional hernia repair with me...

Any help with care plans will be appreciated?

Table of Contents Diagnosis At-Risk Populations Complications Treatments Nurse's Role Nursing Care Plans Impaired Gas Exchange Ineffective Airway Clearance Ineffecti...

Can someone please help with nursing diagnosis and care plans? My pt was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, but he was not in pain so I can't include this issue in my care plan. He was anemic and this is indicated in his labwork, but what really s...

I am currently looking after a patient with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and multiple past CVAs. Patient has expressive aphasia and only responds to loud auditory stimuli. What kinds of psychosocial diagnoses would work here? I was thinking... ...

Infections responsible for sepsis can quickly lead to septic shock, causing multi-organ failure and death. According to the World Health Organization, sepsis accounted for nearly 20% of all worldwide deaths in 2017, including 2.9 million children und...

Hello! I'm struggling with one of my classes, when the teacher gives examples it makes sense but when we're left on our own, it's extremely difficult to know where to start. Specifically, trying to understand the nursing DX r\t (what it's relate...

Before I started nursing school, I read how I was going to have to do tons and tons of care plans. The reality of my nursing school, however, is that we do literally ONE care plan per semester. Some clinical instructors do make us informally come up ...

Hello all I am in need of help with a nursing care plan and I have no idea where to start. This is my first care plan and I need assistance because it was not explained good. My patient: 78 year old femaleAdmitting dx: cp and copdComplaint: "Chest pa...

Diagnosis: Dysfunctional Gastrointestinal motility- the state in which an individual is experiencing increased, decreased, ineffective or lack of peristaltic activity within the gastrointestinal system. Related to: decreased peristaltic activity As E...