Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.
allnurses

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.
Discussion

Tertiary Intention Case study

I am working on a case study for a man who had an appendectomy and is healing by tertiary intention. One of the questions asks about possible complications, so far I have fever, wound bleeding and infection. Am I going in the right direction or is there anything else??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  • Quote

    • Featured Replies

    You're on the right track. Is fever a potential complication, or is it a symptom of a complication (infection)?

    How about pain? Does this patient have any co-mordities that might delay wound healing? (Do some research on diseases/conditions that delay healing.)

    Do you know what healing by tertiary intention means? That might give you some other ideas.

  • Quote

    there's another thread where the advice is to look back at work that's already been done, rather than sit around and try to think of it de novo (from the beginning). anybody who has a case study to do (and that would be, ummm, everyone in nursing school?) should take that advice to heart.

    when i pull out my handy-dandy nanda 2009-2011 and look in the individual section headers, i come up with approximately a bazillion potential nursing diagnoses for someone in this pickle. give that a shot and pick the most important ones. impress your faculty and pick six if she only wants four.

  • Quote
    • Author

    Thank you! Very helpful advice!!!:)

  • Quote

    • Join the conversation

    You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

    Guest
    Add a Comment
    Go to topic listing

    Currently Reading 0

    • No registered users viewing this page.

    Account

    Navigation

    Search

    Search

    Configure browser push notifications
    Chrome (Android)
    1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
    2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
    3. Adjust your preference.
    Chrome (Desktop)
    1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
    2. Select Site settings.
    3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.