Caregiver Role Strain
Caregiver Role Strain: Difficulty in performing family caregiver role.
Acute Confusion
Acute Confusion: Abrupt onset of a cluster of global, transient changes and disturbances in attention, cognition, psychomotor activity, level of consciousness, or the sleep/wake cycle.
Impaired Oral Mucous Membrane
Impaired Oral Mucous Membrane: Disruption of the lips and/or soft tissue of the oral cavity.
Impaired Verbal Communication
Impaired Verbal Communication: Decreased, reduced, delayed, or absent ability to receive, process, transmit, and use a system of symbols.
Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain: Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage...a duration of greater than 6 months.
Functional Urinary Incontinence
Functional Urinary Incontinence: Inability of usually continent person to reach toilet in time to avoid unintentional loss of urine.
Urge Urinary Incontinence
Urge Urinary Incontinence: Involuntary passage of urine occurring soon after a strong sense of urgency to void.
Reflex Urinary Incontinence
Reflex Urinary Incontinence: Involuntary loss of urine at somewhat predictable intervals when a specific bladder volume is reached.
Stress Urinary Incontinence
Stress Urinary Incontinence: Sudden leakage of urine with activities that increase intraabdominal pressure.
Disturbed Thought Processes
Disturbed Thought Processes: The state in which an individual experiences a disruption in such mental activities as conscious thought, reality orientation, problem solving, judgment, and comprehension related to coping, personality, and/or mental disorder.
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Major nursing goals for a client with shingles may include increased understanding of the disease condition and treatment regimen, relief of discomfort from the lesions, emphasis on strict contact isolation, development of self-acceptance, and absence of complications. Here are four (4) nursing care plans (NCP) for herpes zoster (shingles):
