NURSING DIAGNOSIS: Injury, risk for [hemorrhage] Risk factors may include Abnormal blood profile; altered clotting factors (decreased production of prothrombin, fibrinogen, and factors VIII, IX, and X; impaired vitamin K absorption; and release of thromboplastin) Portal hypertension, development of esophageal varices Desired Outcomes Maintain homestasis with absence of bleeding Demonstrate behaviors to reduce risk of bleeding. Nursing Interventions & Rationale [...]

Nursing Diagnosis: Risk for Injury Risk factors may include Cessation of alcohol intake with varied autonomic nervous system responses to the system’s suddenly altered state Involuntary clonic/tonic muscle activity (seizures) Equilibrium/balancing difficulties, reduced muscle and hand/eye coordination Desired Outcomes Demonstrate absence of untoward effects of withdrawal. Experience no physical injury. Nursing Interventions Rationale  Identify stage of AWS (alchohol withdrawal syndrome); [...]

Nursing Diagnosis: Risk for Injury (Hemorrhage) Risk factors may include Abnormal blood profile: decreased vitamin K absorption, alteration in hepatic function, presence of autoimmune antiplatelet antibodies, malignancies (KS), and/or circulating endotoxins (sepsis) Desired Outcomes Display homeostasis as evidenced by absence of bleeding. Nursing Interventions Rationale  Avoid injections, rectal temperatures/rectal tubes. Administer rectal suppositories with caution.  Protects patient from procedure-related causes [...]

Gordon’s functional health patterns is a method devised by Marjory Gordon to be used by the nurses in the nursing process to provide more comprehensive assessment of the client. Below contains the list of nursing diagnoses approved by NANDA-I. Health Perception and Management Pattern Contamination Disturbed energy field Effective therapeutic regimen management Health-seeking behaviors Ineffective community therapeutic regimen management Ineffective [...]

Mastectomy is the surgical removal of the breast which is usually a surgical management for patients with breast cancer. This is done to prevent the metastasize of the cancer cells.

Here are 14 Mastectomy Nursing Care Plans

The nursing goal for patients with stroke can be towards maintaining effective tissue perfusion, preventing further complications, and enhancing coping.

Here are 14 nursing care plans for patients with Stroke

A febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child triggered by a fever. Such convulsions occur without any underlying brain or spinal cord infection or other neurological cause.

Here are 5 nursing care plans for patients with Benign Febrile Convulsions.