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NANDA diagnosis

NORTH AMERICAN NURSING DIAGNOSIS ASSOCIATION (NANDA)  Approved a list of nusing diagnosis through the 12th conference ,1996 . Some of them are given below . Activity intolerance  Activity intolerance,risk for  Adjustment, impaired  Airway clearance , ineffective  Anxiety  Aspiration, risk for  Altered thermoregulation  Bowel incontinence  Breastfeeding, ineffective  Acute pain  Ineffective infant feeding pattern  Knowledge deficit  Injury ,risk for  Self care deficit  Skin integrity , impaired  Suffocation , risk for  Altered thought process  Tissue integrity , impaired  Social interaction, impaired  Sensory alteration: visual , auditory , tactile etc. Altered nutrition  Urinary incontinence altered  Non compliance 

Personal protective equipments

PPE use involves specialized clothing and the equipment worn by the facility  Why ppe is use in health care institutions  Usually the personal protective equipments used to protect against infectious material . The selection of the personal protective equipments is based on the nature of the patient interaction and potential for exposure to blood, body fluids or infectious agents . IMPORTANCE OF WEARING THE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENTS  A) GLOVES - wear gloves when there is a potential contact with blood , body fluids , mucous membrane , non intact skin or contaminated equipments . B) GOWNS - wear a gown to protect skin and clothing during procedures or activities where contact with blood and body fluids is anticipated. C) Facemasks - wear a facemask when there is potential of contact with respiratory secretions and sprays of blood and body fluids or while placing a catheter or injecting material into the spinal canal or subdural space or while handling the chemo drugs ...

Nursing care plan

Q- why nursing care plan is needed ?  Ans- Nursing care plan useful in providing a           Right pathway to a nurse to provide care to            The patients come under her care .  IN TOTAL THERE ARE SEVEN STEPS INVOLVED IN MAKING A NURSING CARE PLAN  Assessment  Nursing diagnosis  Goal  Planning  Rationale  Implementation/intervention  Evaluation  Now there is the brief description of all the steps                      1- Assessment  Assessment means how do a nurse assess the condition of patients or observe the patients in this step the nurse collect all the data of patient condition for interventions  There are two ways of collecting the data - subjective data  -objective data  SUBJECTIVE DATA-  subject means self or the patient ....so by the subjective data means the data which is given by the...