Standard Terminologies in Nursing In home care, Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a prevalent diagnosis, encompassing at least fifty percent of our total patient census. ‘Standardized nursing terminologies play a significant role in defining nursing care’ (Park, 2013). I will show how NANDA, NIC and NOC apply to CHF, the elements involved and how it can improve the patient. The purpose of this paper is to show the main nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes of NANDA, NIC and NOC (NNN) and
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breath, dizziness, faster heartbeats, nausea, abnormal heartbeats, and feeling very tired. There is three main causes to cardiovascular disease are heart attacks and heart disease. The third is an individual that has high blood pressure. When arteries become narrower as the person becomes older, the long term damage can cause congestive heart failure (Beniaminov, Maybaum, & Moinz, 2012). The symptoms of cardiovascular disease vary from mild to severe and could have lasting effects on an individual
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anemia in CKD improve with ESA treatment, it is also been shown to positively effect the more severe consequences (Iranian, 2013). Improvement in cardiac function has been noted in patients diagnosed with left ventricular hypertrophy and congestive heart failure (Iran, 2013) as well as stabilized renal function in non-dialysis patients (Iranian, 2013). Treatment of anemia in CKD patients is also attributed to reducing lengths of hospital stays and decreasing mortality rates (Iranian, 2013). While
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PASUQUIN, ALVIN G. HEALTH HISTORY Place of Interview: Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital Date & Time of History Taking: March 8, 2013 at 4:30 PM Source of Information: Patient Reliability: Reliable IDENTIFYING INFORMATION Mr. P.D, a 68-year-old carpenter, residing in Tanjay, Negros Oriental, Roman Catholic, married with 3 children, admitted for the second time on March 7 at 10 am. CHIEF COMPLAINT: “kutas” PRESENT ILLNESS 5 mos, PTA, patient experienced a sudden onset
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A toddler with Down syndrome Jeffrey was 14 months when I met him. He was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect and had an open heart surgery when he was 6 months old. Jeffrey often got ear infections and had recently had a set of pressure equalizing (pe) ear tubes placed. Jeffrey was not walking and was not yet crawling. Children with Down syndrome do learn to crawl and walk and talk; it takes longer. Recent research and clinical experience suggests that, with regard to talking
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Heart Failure Western Governors University Pathopharmacological Foundations for Advanced Nursing Practice Heart Failure It is estimated that about five million people in the United States are living with heart failure with an overwhelming number of 550,000 newly diagnosed cases each year, costing the nation roughly $32 billion dollars per year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Heart failure is a complex, pathophysiological condition in which the ventricles of the heart is
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safety precautions that were collected from data that was being withheld from the people taking it. “Since 2007, the FDA has added two black box warnings to the Avandia label to alert physicians about the potential increased risk of (1) congestive heart failure, and (2) myocardial
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| Context Definition or Application within the Patient’s Chart | Source Document | 1. ICD | International classification of disease | Jane dare’s disease | Admission summary | 2. CM | Cardiomyopathy | Structural or functional disease of heart muscle | Admission summary | 3. N/A | N- NotA- Applicable | Not availableNo answer | Admission summary | 4. ER | E-EmergencyR- Room | Arrived at emergency room | History and physical | 5. C/O | Complains of | Reason for Jane to go to
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in chronic heart failure patients and its related factors. The aim was to (1) examine the associations among age, gender, New York Heart Association classification (NYHA), Ejection Fraction (EF), beta-blocker use, Hemoglobin (Hb), depression and fatigue in patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and (2) determine the contribution of physiological and psychological factors to the variance in CHF patients’ fatigue. Fatigue is a common symptom in patients with chronic heart failure, but little
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Heart Failure Christy Harding Western Governors University C155- Pathopharmacological Foundations for Advance Nursing Practice Heart failure affects nearly 6 million Americans. It is the leading cause of hospitalization in people older than 65. Roughly 550,000 people are diagnosed with heart failure each year (Emory Healthcare, 2014). Heart failure is a pathologic state where the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the demand of the body’s metabolic needs or when the ventricle’s ability
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