Articles in the Nursing Care Plans Category
Nursing Care Plans for Prostate Cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common neoplasm in males older than age 50; it’s a leading cause of male cancer death. Adenocarcinoma is the most common form; only seldom …
Nursing Care Plans for Kidney Cancer, kidney cancer is rare, kidney cancer also called nephrocarcinoma; renal carcinoma, hypernephroma, and Grawitz’s tumor originate in the kidneys. Others are metastases from various primary-site carcinomas. Kidney cancers are …
Nursing Care Plans for Renal Calculi/Kidney stones. Renal calculi, or nephrolithiasis, Kidney stones are stones that form in the kidneys from the crystallization of minerals and other substances that normally dissolve in the urine.
Common nursing …
Nursing Care Plans For Delusional Disorder, delusional disorder diagnosis can be made when a person exhibits nonbizarre delusions of at least 1 month duration that cannot be attributed to other psychiatric disorders. Nonbizarre delusions must …
Cirrhosis hepatic disease
Nursing care Plans for Cirrhosis, Cirrhosis is a chronic hepatic disease that is characterized by destruction of the functional liver cells, which leads to cellular death. In cirrhosis, the damaged liver cells regenerate …
Traumatic amputation the accidental loss of a body part usually involves a finger, toe, arm, or leg. In complete amputation, the member is totally severed; in partial amputation, some soft-tissue connection remains. The prognosis for traumatic amputation has improved because of early, improved emergency and critical care management, new surgical techniques, early rehabilitation, prosthesis fitting, and new prosthesis designs. Amputations can be surgical (therapeutic) or traumatic (emergencies resulting from injury).
Appendicitis is an acute inflammation of the vermiform appendix, a narrow, blind tube that extends from the inferior part of the cecum just below the ileocecal valve. Although the appendix has no known function, it does regularly fill and empty itself of food. Appendicitis occurs when the appendix becomes inflamed from ulceration of the mucosa or obstruction of the lumen. If untreated, this disease is fatal.
Pneumonia, acute infection of the lung parenchyma, interstitial lung tissue in which fluid and blood cells escape into the alveoli. that often impairs gas exchange
Dementia is a chronic disturbance involving multiple cognitive deficits, including memory impairment. Dementia is characterized by chronicity and deterioration of selective mental functions. Onset is insidious over months to years in most cases. Dementia is usually progressive, more common in the elderly, and rarely reversible even if underlying disease can be corrected. Dementia can be classified as cortical or subcortical.
There are three types of cortical dementia:
* Primary degenerative dementia (eg, Alzheimer dementia), accounting for about 50–60% of cases.
* atherosclerotic (multi-infarct) dementia, 15–20% of cases (this figure is probably low because of the tendency to overuse the diagnosis of Alzheimer dementia)
* Mixtures of the first two types or dementia due to miscellaneous causes, 15–20% of cases . Examples of primary degenerative dementia are Alzheimer dementia (most common) and Pick, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, and Huntington dementias (less common).
Diabetes mellitus is a disorder in which the level of blood glucose is persistently raised above the normal range. Diabetes mellitus is a syndrome with disordered metabolism and inappropriate hyperglycemia due to either a deficiency of insulin secretion or to a combination of insulin resistance and inadequate insulin secretion to compensate. Diabetes mellitus occurs in two primary forms: type 1, characterized by absolute insufficiency, and the more prevalent type 2, characterized by insulin resistance with varying degrees of insulin secretory defects.

