Nursing Care Considerations for Various Patient Conditions
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Nursing Care Considerations For Various Patient
Nursing Care Considerations for Various Patient Conditions
Nursing Care Considerations for Various Patient Conditions
Nursing Care Considerations for Various Patient Conditions
Nursing Care Considerations for Various
Patient Conditions
Take temperature once daily - Monitoring vital signs for patients being discharged home.
Humidifier - Used for patients post-op following tracheostomy with copious secretions.
Avoid injecting insulin into thigh - Can increase absorption rate for PT with type 1 diabetes.
Cover with moist sterile dressing - First action for small bowel protruding from abdominal incision.
Purulent - Type of drainage from dressing that is yellow and thick after cholecystectomy.
Abnormal vaginal bleeding - Signs expected in a patient being evaluated for endometrial cancer.
Altered level of consciousness - Nurse's priority for PT following open reduction and fixation of fractured
femur.
Change nasal drip pad as needed - Action to include in plan for PT who had removal of pituitary gland.
Prevent blood clot formation - Indication for prescribing aspirin following an MI.
Potassium 2.5 - Priority information to identify in a PT with acute gastroenteritis.
I will take tub bath instead of shower - Indicates PT requires more teaching after total hysterectomy.
Take this medication between meals - Instruction for PT taking ferrous gluconate for anemia.
, Avoid medications in capsules and enteric form - Correct teaching for PT who is post-op with an
ileostomy.
Maintain client in fowlers position - Plan of care for PT with intestinal obstruction receiving NG tube
decompression.
Monitor intake and output hourly - Action for nurse caring for PT in oliguric phase of acute kidney injury.
Post-ictal phase - Descriptor to use when documenting a PT difficult to arouse after a generalized tonic-
clonic seizure.
Add thickeners to fluid - Action to assist PT with left sided weakness and dysphagia after stroke.
Reestablish communication - Included in plan for PT with left sided stroke.
Calmly ask the PT if he would like to listen to music - Action for nurse when Alzheimer's PT becomes
agitated during hygiene.
Feel for carotid pulse - First action for nurse caring for PT with heart failure and respiratory arrest.
It must be hard to see your mother so ill and upset - Appropriate response for nurse to PT's adult son
upset over mother crying after stroke.
Forgetfulness gradually progressing into disorientation - Signs of dementia to include in teaching for
family member of PT with dementia.
Monitor platelet levels - Plan of care for PT with DVT of left leg.
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