Nursing diagnosis

Nursing Diagnosis of Top Priority The patient’s safety, as addressed in the nursing diagnosis of: risk for self-directed violence, related to past suicide attempts and request for police to shoot him; secondary to schizoaffective disorder and bipolar type, must be of the nurses’ upmost concern. The following table is an example of a simple nursing care plan established for this specific nursing diagnosis as well as patient: OUTCOME INTERVENTION RATIONALE EVALUATION Based on the aforementioned nursing diagnosis, the nurse should strive towards promoting the goal of patient safety throughout his hospitalization. The nursing intervention of frequent patient rounding has been associated with increased patient safety. Therefore, the nursing staff…

Nursing Diagnosis 1: Insomnia A potential diagnosis for S.M. was insomnia related to anxiety as evidenced by difficulty remaining asleep and functioning, fatigue, and irritability. This diagnosis was chosen for S.M. because she states that she wakes up in the middle of the night at odd hours due to her worries about her children. She is concerned about her children’s education and success. Education is extremely valued in the Indian culture and if her children are not educated properly, she…

Some of the nursing diagnosis based on the above assessment can be listed below: A. Ineffective airway clearance related to excessive secretions B. Ineffective breathing pattern related to decreased lung expansion C. Risk for aspiration D. Disturbed sleeping pattern related to fragmented sleep E. Deficient knowledge related to lack of exposure to previous knowledge 1. Nursing diagnosis: Ineffective airway clearance related to excessive secretions Defining characteristics • Tachypnea, dyspnea •…

CONCEPT 5: COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS This concept is taken from module 5 of block 2 entitled “introduction to public health nursing” 5.1 Significance of the Concept This concept “community diagnosis is very important because it helps to find the common problems or diseases, which are troublesome to the people and are easily preventable in the community, it is a tool to disclose hidden problems that are not visible to the community people but are being affected by them, it helps to impart knowledge…

The nursing diagnosis Ineffective Coping is defined by the “inability to form a valid appraisal of the stressors, inadequate choices of practiced responses, and/or inability to use available resources (Doenges, Moorhouse, & Murr, 2012). An example of a patient who may be diagnosed with Ineffective Coping is a patient with a medical diagnosis of Post-Partum Depression (PPD). Related factors of Ineffective Coping as it relates to PPD may include: Inadequate confidence in the ability to cope,…

Nursing Diagnosis The highest nursing diagnosis is increased risk of dehydration related to electrolyte imbalance as evidence by low sodium levels. By discussing potential health risk, interventions to prevent future occurrence of fluid loss, and modifying dosages of medication that aid in diuresis can contribute to therapeutics affects. Treatment would include a low dosage of diuretic to allow loss of less sodium. To assure effectiveness, skin turgor, skin color, mucous membranes, and…

The definition of the principal diagnosis as defined in the uniform hospital discharge data set that condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospice for care and also the definition of principal diagnosis applies only to impatient in acute short term long term care and psychiatric hospitals. Codes for symptoms signs and ill defined conditions the circumstances of impatient admissions always govern the selection of principal…

This paper is going to talk about my client’s diagnosis and his secondary diagnosis, my assessment and nursing care that was done and could be done along with my evaluation. History and Priority Nursing Problem Mr. X is a 49-year-old male who came in with shortness of breath from a nursing home. His secondary diagnosis ae HIV, AIDS, syphilis, respiratory failure and Kaposi sarcoma. He has an allergy to ciproflaxin. Mr. X had been in the hospital previously and had been sent back to the…

In the beginning I thought that this may be a hard project, but I have since begun to see the community from a different perspective. My first diagnosis for the community is; Ineffective coping, related to increase of poverty/lack of education secondary to loss of jobs and inability to pay for food and housing. Interventions: Find ways for the community to get together and learn how to deal with their problems and make change for each individual for the betterment of the whole community, have…

Nursing Diagnosis The diagnosis, impaired social interaction related to limited social interaction as evidences by always being at home with their mother, was chosen because it would help the children to further their social skills. Currently, children spend most of their time at home during the week with their mother. For some children, this is something that causes them to have lower social skills due to being exposed to fewer people. Throughout it as apparent that this was a factor for these…