Dehydration And Pain Management In Nursing - Nursing Care Plan

Nursing Care Plan

Discuss about the Dehydration and pain management In Nursing.

Nurses provide care to all people in many different health care settings with all types of health care needs. This paper identifies two nursing problems specific to 25 year old, Mr Davis, who admitted following a motor vehicle accident. The care plan will be develop, person centred care model will be used to provide care to identified problems. The paper also identifies the interventions with rational and outlines the expected outcome using nursing care plan table. It is guideline for nurses to follow or maintain the care for the individual patient and is a way of communicating and organising the action or duty of a constantly changing nursing staff. Dehydration and pain management would be the main priories in the situation that the patient is presented with in the orthopaedic unit at the Townsville Hospital.

In the current context, MR. David was a 25 year old man who had met with a motor vehicle accident and had been admitted to the emergency care unit of the hospital. Based upon the clinical symptoms expressed by the patient two particular nursing priorities had been chosen for the patient which were restoration of hydration in the patient along with management of pain, as the patient complained of headache , dizziness along with acute pain the limbs .  Hence, based upon the nursing priorities chosen by the nurse a care plan had been designed for the patient.

In the current study , the nurse had  followed  an evidence  based  pathway for the care and management  of the patient condition, she had designed the care plans using the  Nursing  Midwifery Board Australia (NMBA) standards.  As mentioned by Hatherley, Jennings & Cross (2016), aligning the care plans with the NMBA standards helps in the dissemination of quality support and care.

NMBA standard 3, standard 4, standard 5, standard 6 and standard 7

The intervention for Mr. David was chosen based upon the nursing standards f of practice.

As per the NMBA standard 3, the nurse here maintained a capability for practice by responding in a timely manner to the treatment and services of the patient.

As per NMBA standard 4, the nurse had comprehensively conducted assessments to analyse the current health situation of the patient. Some of the assessments approached adopted by the nurse over here was conducting the RICE assessment which could reduced the pain complications within the patient. Additionally, the neurovascular assessment helps in monitoring vital signs such as the presence of sensation in the legs of the patient (Brown, Edwards, Seaton & Buckley, 2017). In case, the patient shows reduced sensations or reduce leg movements, physiotherapy sessions could be introduced for the patient.

Nursing Problem 1 - Dehydration

As per standard 5 of the NMBA standards, the nurse had used assessment data for the planning and d designing if effective cares plan.

As per standard 6 of the NMBA standards, the nurse provides safe, appropriate and quality nursing practice. The nurse here uses RICE assessment test to reduce the chances of future complications arising out of the injury.

As per standard 7 of the NMBA standards, the nurse had used effective documentation to communicate nursing priorities, goals and outcomes.

Conclusion

The pathway which had been chosen by the nurse over here was to monitor the vital signs of the patient for dehydration and follow up with the fluid input and output   every two hours.  The process selected by the nurse over here was maintaining a fluid balance chart. For the pain management, the patient was put on a constant opoid supply, where fentanyl had been provided to the nurse of reducing the amount of pain experienced by the patient. It was administered thought the type IV channel.  Additionally, the RICE assessment had been used to reduce the future complications within the patient arising from the damage. The nurses also followed a standard assessment pathway for monitoring the mood and well being of the patient by providing them with relaxations such as watching television or music therapy.   The nurse also had to ensure that the drug had been administered to the patient in safe doses, as overdose of the drug could   result in severe health consequences.

Therefore, following and evidence based pathway helps in ensuring that safe and effective nursing care services are provide to the patients. The nursing standards help in, maintaining a step-by step approach to the clinical care. Therefore, it reduced the chances of missing out the important steps which are vital to the recuperation of the patient. It is the duty of the nursing professional to reduce the pain within the patient by using relaxation and mood uplifting techniques. However, the nurse could have followed effective pain management techniques for controlling the level of pain experienced by the patient. For example, using assessment tools and metrics such as Braden scale could have helped the nurse in measuring the progress of r pain reduction in the patient more accurately.

Therefore, the implementation of the NMBA standards also help in ensuring that the patient is  given sufficient autonomy in deciding  over the course of his care plan.  This helps in implementing a person centred approach where care and   complete recuperation of the patient are placed at the core.

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