This essay will discuss the plan of care I developed for Mr X while he was under my care in a post anaesthetic unit. It will discuss my nursing assessments‚ and what diagnoses I developed from this. It will then discuss the rationale behind my nursing interventions using relevant literature. My plan of care will be analysed throughout while identifying how my nursing care meets best practice guidelines. A nursing care plan is begun at a patients admission. In this case Mr X was booked in for
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of the most important organs in the body. All living things have a heartbeat‚ rather it be a healthy one or a not so healthy one. If your heart is not beating then I am saddened to tell you that you are dead‚ not that you would be able to hear me or care what I have to say. The four chambers consist of the right and left atrium and right and left atrium. Each of the chambers has valves. The tricuspid valve‚ mitral valve‚ pulmonary valve‚ and the aortic valve are their names. Their purpose is to allow
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Care Plan Problem: Risk for bleeding r/t postpartum complications. Patient Centered Goal: Patient will not experience any abnormal/excessive bleeding by the end of clinical shift. Expected Outcomes: 1. Patient will experience lochia reducing in amount and lightening in color by the end of clinical shift. 2. Patient will observe fundus that is firm‚ midline‚ and decreasing in height by the end of clinical shift. 3. Patient will verbalize understanding of signs and symptoms
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Camden County College Nursing Care Plan Student: Date:9/16/2103 Pt. Data Objective & Subjective Nursing Diagnoses Goals (Short & long term Interventions & Rationale Pt. Teaching Eval. Subjective Data Patient states “I am afraid all the steroids are going to make me fat.” And was crying Patient was asking questions about covering the butterfly rash. Patient showed concern about swelled hand. She stated she did not want to look “crippled. “ Objective Data Patient
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Medical Diagnosis: sickle cell anemia with vaso-occlusive crisis Nursing Diagnosis List 1. Impaired Comfort related to sickle cell anemia as evidenced by acute vaso-occlusive crisis. The patient’s pain should take precedence as the nursing diagnosis‚ because it is in all-encompassing factor that affects the client’s ability to function within the other areas of Maslow’s hierarchy of physiological needs‚ such as breathing and sleeping. The pain from the vaso-occlusion makes it difficult for the
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What is ventricular tachycardia? Ventricular tachycardia is a rapid heart rate originating from the ventricles (lower chambers of the heart) and produces a heart rate frequency of at least 100 beats
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Sinus Bradycardia Etiology Sinus Bradycardia is a sinus rhythm with a resting heart rate of sixty beats per minute or less. One’s normal heart rate ranges from sixty to one hundred beats per minute‚ your heart rate is considered to be slower than normal if your heart rate is less than sixty beats per minute. During a normal heartbeat‚ an electrical signal is sent from the heart’s sinus node. The sinus node acts as a natural pacemaker located in the upper portion of the right atrium. The sinoatrial
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Care Plan Worksheet Student: Date of Care: Age/Gender: Rm Number: Code Status: full Allergy: NKA Admitting Diagnosis : embolic cerebral vascular accident (CVA)‚ right side Current Medical/Surgical Diagnosis: chronic left ventricle thrombus on anticoagulant‚ hypertension‚ chronic kidney disease stage 3 Past Medical/Surgical History: metastasis of prostate cancer‚ primary; bone cancer‚ secondary; cardiomyopathy‚ a central hypertension‚ left bundle branch lock‚ past substance abuse
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Care Plans. Care plan for a long-standing condition called myxoedema‚ which is a condition I had never come across before. Therefore‚ in order to compile an accurate and comprehensive care plan I had to look into what myxoedema was. Myxoedema is caused by hypothyroidism (under activity of the thyroid gland). Myxoedema refers to the buildup of mucoploysaccharide in the subcutaneous tissues of the skin (Kumar and Clark‚ 1998). Signs and symptoms of myxoedema include oedematous swelling of the
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weight‚ until I had my second child. I always weighed about 133pounds‚ but I reached 250 pounds. I constantly felt tired and lacked the desire and motivation to do anything with my diary life‚ felt like torture. Consequently‚ I began to suffer of tachycardia. I was in my house‚ when I had a drastic change in my heart beat went to fast that I felt I could not breathe. Immediately I called my mom and she took me to the hospital. The doctor told me my heart was beating too fast so I was diagnosed with
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