First Priority Nursing Diagnosis Of Acute Pain

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Acute pain was first priority nursing diagnosis because pain management is very important and all patients who receive surgery will experience some form of pain. Having unrelieved pain “has a negative impact on physiological and psychological functions; and delays postoperative recovery and discharge from hospital” (Lin & Wang, 2005). Acute pain is defined based on it sudden onset and duration of less than six months, the patient has being experiencing patient for approximately six weeks and was caused by having Pancreatic Necrosectomy surgery (Koneti & Jones, 2013).

Risk of infection is the second priority nursing diagnosis because of portal of entry of infection can enter at the surgical sites on the abdomen. Risk of infection would delay

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