Nursing Care Plan

Nursing care Plan

Nursing processes for the teaching

According to Potter and Perry (2005), the nursing process is a system that is formulated to arrange and provide the quality of care to the patients (p.279). The process of nursing is of five stages that include assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation and the process are described below.

Assessment

A planned and complete assortment of data is termed as assessment and it is the initial step of the nursing plan. It is necessary to write a care plan that contains the complete information of the patient. The past and substantial assessment indicates the symptoms of hyperglycemia and further the emotional and physical factors may also create an effect on the learning abilities of the patient. The assessment can be helpful in understanding the complete history of the patient, his reason of admission in the hospital, the laboratory test records, prescriptions and the health condition of the patient (Begin, L 2007). Assessment is an active and systemic way to collect the information about the patient. The data contains the physiological information of the patient as well as the spiritual, socioeconomic and the socio cultural information. The responses of the patients to various situations are also included (ANA 2013).

The patient is being questioned about the symptoms like polyphagia, polyuria, and skin dryness, reduction in weight, ulcers and vaginal itching. Furthermore, the levels of blood glucose and urine are measured, because the insulin dependent diabetes patients contain the ketone bodies in their urine. Type 1 diabetes patients are also subjected to the assessment for the ketoacidosis that is further associated with ketonuria, lethargy and orthostatic hypotension. The laboratory values of metabolic acidosis and electrolyte imbalance are judged.

The nursing care emphasizes on handling the initial complications of the disease and after the treatment of these complications those areas are focused that need long term care. In addition, the patient is subjected for the assessment of the physical complications that can result in the disability of learning like vision problems, neurologic disorders and motor coordination and this makes up the functional assessment of the patient.

The nurse is supposed to estimate social and family situation of patient according to the factors that produce an impact on the treatment of diabetes. The factors include the literacy level of the family, financial condition of the family, health insurance, circumstances of family support and the daily routine of patient. All these factors make up the family assessment of the patient (Vera M, 2013).

Diagnosis

These are the medical findings about the problems and issues which are faced by the patients. The suitable nursing diagnosis can be identified by the assessment. The diagnosis can recognize the problems of the patient as well as focuses on the other problems that are created due to a single problem. The diagnosis is always started with the problem that is on the highest priority of the patient (Begin, L 2007).

Nursing diagnosis

The diagnosis of nurses includes the aspects like the reduction in the fluid volume ...