Nursing Diagnosis and 11 Gordon's Functional Health Patterns

Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns is a method develops By Marjorie Gordon in 1987 proposed functional health patterns as a guide for establishing a comprehensive nursing data base. By using these categories it’s possible to create a systematic and standardized approach to data collection, and enable the nurse to determine the following aspects of health and human function:  11 Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns  Health Perception Health Management Pattern  Nutritional Metabolic...

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Pain Nursing Management

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage (Merskey & Bogduk). Pain is “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associatedwith actual or potential damage or described in terms of such damage; ef pain is always subjective” (International Association for the Study of Pain, 1979). Pain is categorized...

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Nursing Care Plans for Preeclampsia-Eclampsia Pregnancy Induced Hypertension PIH

Preeclampsia-Eclampsia Nursing care plans, Pregnancy Induced Hypertension (PIH) is a potentially life-threatening disorder that usually develops after the 20th week of pregnancy. It typically occurs in Nulliparity women and may be nonconvulsive or convulsive.Preeclampsia continues to have a massive impact on maternal and prenatal morbidity/mortality  Preeclampsia,...

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Nursing Care Plans For Hypertension

Nursing care plans for Hypertension; hypertension, high blood pressure, is the most common of all health problems in adults and is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disorders. Hypertension is a systolic blood pressure greater than 140 mm Hg and a diastolic pressure greater than 90 mm Hg over a sustained period, based on the average of two or more blood pressure...

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Nursing Process

Nursing Process  The nursing process is a problem solving process consists of elements assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Many a priori assumptions have been identified and studied concern the nursing process approach to patient care that includes decision making as a characteristic of the process. These assumptions are that the nursing process...

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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an acute and persistent lung disease characterized by an arterial hypoxemia (PaO2/FiO2<200 mmHg), resistant to oxygen therapy and bilateral infiltrates on chest X ray’ (Lucangelo et al). Brunner and Suddarth defined ARDS is a clinical syndrome characterized by a sudden and progressive pulmonary edema, increasing bilateral...

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Nursing Care Plans for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an acute and persistent lung disease characterized by an arterial hypoxemia (PaO2/FiO2<200 mmHg), resistant to oxygen therapy and bilateral infiltrates on chest X ray’ (Lucangelo et al).  Brunner and Suddarth defined ARDS is a clinical syndrome characterized by a sudden and...

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