Nursing Care Plan for Abdominal Typhoid : 2 Nursing Diagnosis and Interventions
1. Imbalanced Nutrition Less Than Body Requirements related to no appetite, nausea and bloating.
Purpose: Improve the nutritional and fluid needs.
Nursing Interventions:
- Assess nutritional status of children.
- Allow children to foods that can be tolerated child, plan to improve the nutritional quality at the child's appetite increases.
- Give the food is accompanied by a nutritional supplement to improve the quality of nutritional intake.
- Encourage parents to provide food to the technique of small but frequent portions.
- Weigh weight every day at the same time and with the same scale.
- Maintain cleanliness of the child's mouth.
- Explain the importance of adequate nutritional intake for the cure of disease.
- Collaboration for parenteral feeding through. If feeding via oral did not meet the nutritional needs of children.
2. Risk for Fluid Volume Deficit related to the lack of fluid intake and increased body temperature.
Purpose: To prevent the lack of fluid volume.
Nursing Interventions:
- Observation of vital signs (body temperature) at least every four hours.
- Monitor the increasing signs of dehydration: inelastic turgor, sunken fontanel, decreased urine output, dry mucous membranes, cracked lips.
- Observation and record intake and output and maintain an adequate intake and output.
- Monitor and record the weight at the same time and with the same scale.
- Monitor the provision of intravenous fluids through an IV every hour.
- Reduce the loss of fluid that is not visible (insensible water loss / IWL) to give a cold compress or a tepid sponge.
- Give antibiotics according to the program.
