Nursing Care Plan

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...