Selected Nursing diagnosis: Impaired Swallowing
The nursing diagnosis of impaired swallowing is appropriate for a patient with both myasthenia gravis (MG) and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). Myasthenia gravis is an acquired autoimmune disease (Moore & Shepard, 2014, p. 21). The autoantibody attack, which takes place on the acetylcholine (ACh) receptors of nerve impulses, causing weakness of the voluntary skeletal muscles (Moore & Shepard, 2014, p. 21). Myasthenia Gravis affects approximately 20 in 100,000 people in the United States (Hinkle & Cheever, 2014, p. 2040). More women than men are affected, commonly in the second and third decades of life; however, after age 50, the gender distribution is more equal (Hinkle & Cheever, 2014, p.
The nursing diagnosis of impaired swallowing is appropriate for a patient with both myasthenia gravis (MG) and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). Myasthenia gravis is an acquired autoimmune disease (Moore & Shepard, 2014, p. 21). The autoantibody attack, which takes place on the acetylcholine (ACh) receptors of nerve impulses, causing weakness of the voluntary skeletal muscles (Moore & Shepard, 2014, p. 21). Myasthenia Gravis affects approximately 20 in 100,000 people in the United States (Hinkle & Cheever, 2014, p. 2040). More women than men are affected, commonly in the second and third decades of life; however, after age 50, the gender distribution is more equal (Hinkle & Cheever, 2014, p.