Hydrocephalus is a buildup of fluid inside the skull, leading to brain swelling. Hydrocephalus is caused by cerebrospinal fluid flow problems, the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. This fluid carries nutrients to the brain, eliminating waste from the brain, and acts as a cushion.
CSF normally moves through...
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Nursing Care Plan for Morbid Obesity
Obesity is defined as having excess fat in the body. Obesity increases the risk of other diseases, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Doctors use the BMI (body mass index), which is based on weight and height to determine whether you suffer from obesity.
Extreme obesity or...
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Nursing Care Plan for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease which has long been known and spread throughout the world and involving all races and ethnic groups. Rheumatoid arthritis is often found in women, with the ratio of women to men is 3: 1. The tendency for women suffering from rheumatoid arthritis...
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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) - Assessment
1. General condition
Covering conditions such as the level of tension / fatigue, qualitative level of consciousness or GCS and client verbal response.
2. Vital signs
Includes examining:
Blood pressure: should be examined in a different position, assess the pulse...
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Nursing Care Plan for Stomach Cancer
Stomach Cancer is a disease that occurs in the stomach. The average age of patients with stomach cancer is 45 years and above. However there are cases where the disease is under the age of 45 years.Like most other types of cancer, stomach cancer cause is not known with certainty.
But...
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Nursing Diagnosis and Interventions for Neonatal Sepsis
Sepsis is a syndrome characterized by clinical signs and symptoms of severe infection that can progress toward septicemia and septic shock. (Doenges, 1999)
While neonatal sepsis is a severe infection that affects neonates with systemic symptoms and there are...
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Anxiety, worry, fear, is a common psychological symptoms and can be felt by each individual. Anxiety reactions usually occur frequently in adults, but children can also face the anxiety, such as temporarily abandoned by parents, first day of school or at the time wanted the exam. In the case of the elderly, the reaction...
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According to Freud (in Alwisol, 2005: 28) says that anxiety is the ego function to warn people about the possibility of a danger, so it can be prepared the appropriate adaptive response. Anxiety serves as a mechanism that protects the ego because the anxiety signal to us that there is a danger and if not done the right...
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Nursing Care Plan for Mastoiditis
Mastoiditis is an inflammation of the mastoid bone, usually from the tympanic cavity. The expansion of middle ear infections repeatedly can cause changes in the mastoid, such as thickening of the mucosa and accumulation of exudate. Over time there is inflammation of the bone (osteitis)...
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Trigeminal Neuralgia
Neuralgia is a stabbing pain that arises occasionally, but short and heavy, which occurs along the distribution of a nerve. Trigeminal neuralgia (NT) is neuralgia on the trigeminal nerve (fifth cranial nerve) that is responsible for sensation in the face. Trigeminal neuralgia (facial pain) is characterized...
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Nursing Care Plan for Dermatitis
Dermatitis is inflammation of the skin. Dermatitis can have many causes and occurs in many forms. Dermatitis usually involves an itchy rash on swollen, reddened skin.
Dermatitis is a common condition that's not contagious and usually isn't life-threatening. Even so, it can make you...
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Hypertension is one of the cardiovascular system diseases that are often found in the community. Hypertension is not a contagious disease, but it should always be wary. High blood pressure or hypertension and arteriosclerosis are two basic conditions that underlie many forms of cardiovascular disease.
Furthermore, high...
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Trachoma is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness and the second cause of blindness after cataract. Blindness from trachoma occurs after years of repeated infection with the microorganism, Chlamydia trachomatis. The process of infection and re-infection starts in early childhood and may continue to adulthood,...
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Nursing Care Plan for Dysentery
Dysentery is derived from the Greek, ie dys (= disorder) and enteron (= intestine). so dysentery
is a gastrointestinal disease in the form of intestinal infection or inflammation of the intestines caused by bacteria, which causes severe diarrhea. Each individual course of the disease is...
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Nursing Care Plan for Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) is a potentially life threatening condition of diabetes occurring mostly in patients with Type 1 diabetes but on occasion also in patients with Type 2 diabetes. This disease is a potentially fatal complication of diabetes that occurs when insulin...
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Nursing Care Plan for Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is a heart disease which is inborn, because it occurs when a baby still in the womb. At the end of the seventh week of pregnancy, heart formation is complete; so the formation of cardiac abnormalities occur in early pregnancy. Causes of...
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Nursing Care Plan for Blepharitis
Blepharitis or better known as inflammation of the eyelids is one of the eye diseases to watch out for. The disease is caused by the oil glands at the base of the lashes were damaged, causing itching in the eyelids, irritation, even to inflammation. If this is allowed then it would...
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Nursing Care Plan for Bronchiectasis
Bronchiectasis is a chronic dilatation of the bronchi and bronchioles that may be caused by various conditions, including lung infections and bronchial obstruction; foreign body aspiration, vomit, and objects from the upper respiratory tract; and the pressure due to a tumor, blood...
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Pruritus is irritating skin sensation and is characterized by itching, as well as provoking to scratch.
1. Pruritus Gravidarum
Induced by the estrogen hormone, especially in the third trimester of pregnancy, starting from the abdomen or body, then generalized, may be accompanied by symptoms of anorexia, nausea or vomiting...
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Fatigue
Fatigue is a condition with signs of reduced capacity of a person, for work and reduced efficiency of accomplishment, and this is usually accompanied by a feeling tired and weak. Fatigue can be acute and come on suddenly or chronic and persist. According to other sources of fatigue is a condition of the human...
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Nursing Diagnosis for Dehydration
Fluid volume deficit related to excessive output, less intake.
Risk for ineffective tissue perfusion related to decreased blood flow.
Risk for impaired skin integrity related to decreased skin turgor.
Activity intolerance related to physical weakness.
Risk for Decreased cardiac output...
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Dehydration
Definition
Dehydration is a condition in which a person who is not fasting experiencing or at risk of dehydration vascular, interstitial or intra-vascular (Sell Lynda Carpenito, 2000: 139).
Classification
Classification of dehydration by Donna D. Ignatavicus there are 3 types:
a. Isotonic dehydration
Isotonic...
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Risk for Infection related to the invasion of microorganisms in the body
Goal : after the act of nursing for 3x24 hours of infection did not occur.
Expected outcomes:
Patients will show a careful hand-washing techniques.
Patients will be free of the nosocomial infection during hospitalization.
Patients will demonstrate...
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Risk for Activity Intolerance related to physical weakness
Activity Intolerance is a decrease in physiological capacity to maintain activity to the level desired or required.
Defining Characteristics:
Major :
Change the client's physiological response to the activity undertaken.
Respiratory: dyspnea (breathing frequency...
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Nursing Care Plan for Febrile Seizures
According to Doengoes (1999: 259-261 and 871-872) includes:
History of causative factors:
Idiopathic no cause is known.
Post-trauma, head injury, inflammation of the lining of the brain, high fever.
History of seizures
Since what age?
How long seizures occur?
How many times a...
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Nursing Care Plan for Pediatric Febrile Seizures
Definition of Febrile Seizures
Febrile seizures are seizures that occur on the rise in body temperature (rectal temperature of more than 380C) which is caused by an extra-cranial process. Febrile seizures occur in 2-4% of children aged 6 months - 5 years. Children who...
