Goals of Postural Drainage

Definition Postural drainage (bronchial drainage) is a means of mobilizing secretions in one or more lung segments to the central airways by placing the patient in various positions so that gravity assists in the drainage process. When secretions are...

How is Low Blood Pressure Treated ?

Low blood pressure in healthy subjects without symptoms or organ damage needs no treatment. However, all patients with symptoms possibly due to low blood pressure should be evaluated by a doctor. (Patients who have had a major drop in blood pressure from their...

Signs and symptoms of Low Blood Pressure

When the blood pressure is not sufficient to deliver enough blood to the organs of the body, the organs do not work properly and may be permanently damaged. For example, if insufficient blood flows to the brain, brain cells do not receive enough oxygen and nutrients,...

Treatment for Deep Vein Thrombosis

What is the treatment for deep vein thrombosis?Superficial Thrombophlebitis Treatment for superficial blood clots is symptomatic with: warm compresses, leg compression, and an anti-inflammatory medications such as ibuprofen. If the thrombophlebitis occurs near...

Fluid Volume Excess Nursing Diagnosis and Interventions

Nursing Diagnosis - Interventions for Fluid Volume Excess Nursing Diagnosis Fluid Volume Excess Excess fluid volume related to decreased glomerular filtration rate (decrease in cardiac output) and the retention of sodium / water. Characterized by: Orthopnea,...

Nursing Diagnosis for Liver Abscess - Nursing Interventions for Liver Abscess

Nursing Diagnosis for Liver Abscess - Nursing Interventions for Liver Abscess Liver abscess is a relatively uncommon but life-threatening disorder that occurs when bacteria or protozoa destroy hepatic tissue. The damage produces a cavity, which fills with infectious...

Pulmonary Tuberculosis Nanda Nursing Diagnosis

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a highly contagious disease caused by a bacteria known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB generally affects the lungs, but it also can invade other organs of the body, like the brain, kidneys and lymphatic system. TB is spread...

Nursing Diagnosis and Nursing Interventions for Hirschsprung's Disease

Nursing Care Plan for Hirschsprung's Disease Hirschsprung’s Disease Hirschsprung's disease is a blockage of the large intestine due to improper muscle movement in the bowel. It is a congenital condition, which means it is present from birth. Symptoms Symptoms...

Deficient Knowledge Nursing Diagnosis Interventions

Nursing Diagnosis for Deficient KnowledgeDefinition: Absence or deficiency of cognitive information related to a specific topic Defining Characteristics: Verbalization of the problem; inaccurate follow-through of instruction; inaccurate performance of test;...

Fatigue Nursing Diagnosis - NIC NOC

Nursing Diagnosis for Fatigue Definition: Fatigue An overwhelming, sustained sense of exhaustion and decreased capacity for physical and mental work at usual level Characteristics: Inability to restore energy even after sleep; lack of energy or inability...

Activity Intolerance Nursing Diagnosis NIC NOC

Nursing Diagnosis for Activity Intolerance NANDA Definition: Insufficient physiological or psychological energy to endure or complete required or desired daily activities Most activity intolerance is related to generalized weakness and debilitation secondary...

Assessment in patients with CHF

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is generally classified as systolic or diastolic heart failure and becomes progressively more common with increasing age. Systolic heart failure: The pumping action of the heart is reduced or weakened. A common clinical...

Asthma Nursing Assessment

Nursing Assessment for Asthma Asthma is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness...

Acute Pain - Chronic Pain Nursing Diagnosis

There are many things that can cause a person pain and different people have different tolerances for types of pain. Someone with a low tolerance may find many things very painful. Someone with a higher tolerance may be able to withstand these things. There is...

Acute Pain - Pyelonephritis Nursing Care Plan

Acute pyelonephritis is a potentially organ- and/or life-threatening infection that characteristically causes scarring of the kidney. An episode of acute pyelonephritis may lead to significant renal damage; kidney failure; abscess formation (eg, nephric, perinephric);...

Uterine Fibroids - Nursing Interventions Acute Pain

A uterine fibroid is a leiomyoma (benign (non-cancerous) tumor from smooth muscle tissue) that originates from the smooth muscle layer (myometrium) of the uterus. Fibroids are often multiple and if the uterus contains too many leiomyomata to count, it is referred...

Fatigue Nursing Interventions - Activity Intolerance

Activity intolerance related to fatigue Definition: Insufficient physiological or psychological energy to continue or complete the requested activity or daily activities. Defining characteristics: Verbal report of fatigue or weakness. Abnormal response of blood...

Nursing Intervention for Diabetes Mellitus - Deficient Fluid volume

Nursing Intervention - Deficient Fluid volume for Diabetes Mellitus 1.Monitor orthostatic blood pressure changes. Rational : Hypovolemia may be manifested by hypotension and tachycardia. 2.Assess peripheral pulses, capillary refill, skin turgor, and mucous membrane. Rational...

6 Nursing Diagnosis - Care Plan for Dengue Fever

6 Nursing Diagnosis for Dengue Fever - Care Plan for Dengue Fever Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a disease caused by dengue virus of a virus belonging to arbovirus and entered into the patient's body through the bite of a mosquito "Aedes aegypty" (Christantie...

Nursing Intervention and Rational for Asthma

Nursing Intervention and Rational for Asthma a. Auscultation of breath sounds, record the presence of breath sounds, such as: wheezing, ronkhi. Rationale: Some degree of bronchial spasms occur with airway obstruction. Faint breath sounds with expiratory wheezing...

Nursing Care Plan for COPD

Anemia Anaemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or their oxygen-carrying capacity is insufficient to meet physiologic needs, which vary by age, sex, altitude, smoking, and pregnancy status. The word anemia is taken from a Greek word meaning...

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