DECREASED CARDIAC OUTPUT DEFINITION

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• DECREASED CARDIAC OUTPUT DEFINITION
• Potential Complication: Cardiac/Vascular
• Nursing Diagnosis: Process or Outcome?
• Nursing Diagnosis: Defined
• PRENATAL BLEEDING
• Potential Complication: Reproductive
• Abdominal wall defects
• Development of Nursing Diagnosis
• Nursing diagnosis Decreased Intracranial Adaptive Capacity

DECREASED CARDIAC OUTPUT DEFINITION Posted: 14 Oct 2010 08:15 AM PDT DECREASED CARDIAC OUTPUT DEFINITION PC: Decreased Cardiac Output: Describes a person experiencing or at high risk to experience inadequate blood supply for tissue needs because of insufficient blood pumping by the heart High-Risk Populations Acute myocardial infarction Aortic or mitral valve disease Cardiomyopathy Cardiac tamponade Hypothermia Septic shock Coarctation of the aorta Chronic obst

Potential Complication: Cardiac/Vascular Posted: 14 Oct 2010 08:11 AM PDT DEFINITION PC: Cardiac/Vascular: Describes a person experiencing or at high risk to experience various cardiac and/or vascular dysfunctions AUTHOR'S NOTE The nurse can use this generic collaborative problem to describe a person at risk for several types of cardiovascular problems. For example, for a client in a critical care unit vulnerable to cardiovascular dysfunction, using PC: Cardiac/Vascular would dire

Nursing Diagnosis: Process or Outcome? Posted: 14 Oct 2010 08:03 AM PDT A review of the literature reveals that, over time, the term nursing diagnosis has been used in three contexts: * As the second step of the nursing process. In this step, the nurse analyzes data collected during assessment and evaluates the client's health status. Some conclusions resulting from data analysis lead to nursing diagnoses; others do not. It is important to recognize that the outcome of this process c

Nursing Diagnosis: Defined Posted: 14 Oct 2010 07:44 AM PDT definition, diagnosis is the careful, critical study of something to determine its nature. The question is not whether nurses can diagnose, but what nurses can diagnose. In 1953, V. Fry introduced the term nursing diagnosis to describe a step necessary in developing a nursing care plan. Over the next 20 years, references to nursing diagnosis appeared sporadically in the literature. From 1973 (the first meeting o

PRENATAL BLEEDING Posted: 14 Oct 2010 12:06 AM PDT DEFINITION PC: Prenatal Bleeding: Describes a woman experiencing or at high risk to experience bleeding during pregnancy High-Risk Populations Incompetent cervix Spontaneous therapeutic abortion Ectopic pregnancy Gestational trophoblastic disease (hydatidiform mole) Disseminated intravascular coagulation For Placenta Previa (Late Pregnancy) Multiparity Previous placenta previa Uterine abnormali

Potential Complication: Reproductive Posted: 14 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT DEFINITION PC: Reproductive: Describes a person experiencing or at high risk to experience a problem in reproductive system functioning Significant Laboratory/Diagnostic Assessment Criteria Culture for gonorrhea and chlamydia Gram's stain for diplococci Rapid plasma reagin test (RPR; positive in syphilis) Cervical, urethral smears (positive in infections) Pap smear (positive in dysplasia, carcinoma) Fetal pH (l

Abdominal wall defects Posted: 13 Oct 2010 11:54 PM PDT Abdominal wall defects are birth (congenital) defects that allow the stomach or intestines to protrude. Many unexpected and fascinating events occur during the development of a fetus inside the womb. The stomach and intestines begin development outside the baby’s abdomen and only later does the abdominal wall enclose them. Occasionally, either the umbilical opening is too large, or it develops improperly,

Development of Nursing Diagnosis Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:27 PM PDT Before the development of a classification or list of nursing diagnoses, nurses used whatever word they wanted to describe client problems. For example, nurses might have described a client recovering from surgery as "the appendectomy," another client as "the diabetic," and another client as "difficult." Clearly, knowing that a person has diabetes brings to mind blood sugar problems and risk for i

Nursing diagnosis Decreased Intracranial Adaptive Capacity Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:08 PM PDT DEFINITION Decreased Intracranial Adaptive Capacity: A clinical state in which intracranial fluid dynamic mechanisms that normally compensate for increases in intracranial volumes are compromised, resulting in repeated disproportionate increases in intracranial pressure (ICP) in response to a variety of noxious and nonnoxious stimuli DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS Major (Must Be Present) Repeated increases in ICP of >