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Nursing Diagnosis : Self-care deficit: personal hygiene and clothing / makeup r / t decreased ability and self-care motivation. General goals : The client can increase the interest or motivation and maintaining personal hygiene. Specific goals : 1. The client can build a trusting relationship. Outcomes : The client can express feelings and the current state: Friendly facial expression. Show pleasure. There is eye contact. Want to shake hands. Want to mention names. Want to answer greeting. Clients want to sit side by side with nurses. Want to express the problems encountered. Interventions : Create a trusting relationship by using therapeutic communication principles: Greetings to the client with a friendly verbal and non-verbal. Introduce yourself politely. Ask the client's full name and nickname that the client prefer. Explain the purpose of the interaction. Honest and keep promises. Show empathy. Pay attention to the basic needs of the client. ...

A cataract is a cloudy part in the normally clear lens of the eye and obscures vision. This is a very common disease. Eye lens is a transparent section in the back of the pupil (the black spot in the center of the eye) that serves to focus light on the retina. In the presence of a cataract, light entering the eye becomes blocked. Cataracts usually occur when a person enters old age. Eventually a cataract condition will be increased so as to obstruct vision. Many sufferers are eventually require surgery to replace the damaged lens with an artificial lens. Causes Cataracts in Elderly The cause of cataract is not known with certainty. Along with age, the proteins that make up the eye lens ever changing. This makes the lens of the eye that had been clear, changed into murky. Until now, not yet known how the aging process can lead to changes in proteins in the eye lens. Some other factors that will heighten your risk of developing cataracts: Eye exposure to sunlight for a lo...

Therapy Modalities in Psychiatric Nursing Mental disorder is a disease with multi-causal, a disease with many causes that vary widely. Causes of mental disorders has been identified include the movement in the area of organo-biological, psycho-educational areas, and socio-cultural areas. In the concept of stress-adaptation cause maladaptive behavior as the stage began the predisposing factors, precipitation factor in the form of a stressor originator, capability assessment of stressors, coping resources of the individual, and how the coping mechanisms chosen by an individual. From here and then determine whether an individual's behavior is adaptive or maladaptive. Many experts in mental health have a different perception of what is a mental disorder and how behavioral disorders occur. The divergent views embodied in the form of conceptual model of mental health. View psychoanalysis models in contrast with the view of social models, behavioral models, existential models, medica...

Definition of Amnesia and Types of Amnesia Definition of Amnesia Amnesia is a sense memory loss diseases, which could take place in a short time and continues extension, especially it concerns the ideas should be expressed with words. Amnesia can also take place definitively (to be sure, not temporary), permanent and lost for ever. Amnesia can partially lost from memory, but can also be total and can not be recalled. Sometimes amnesia could take place periodically or regularly. In the event of a concussion (commotio cerebri) and injury to the brain, amnesia is often the case. Types of Amnesia 1. Retrograde Amnesia (Backward) Retrograde amnesia is loss of memory of the event and all the things of which precede an accident. All impression of the past before the accident, so missing. This usually lasts a short / brief. 2. Anterograde Amnesia Anterograde amnesia is loss of memory of events immediately after the accident occurred, which occurs after the shock, concussion or ...

The conceptual model developed by Leininger in explaining nursing care in a cultural context described in terms of sunrise (Sunrise Model) Assessment Assessment is designed based on 7 components in the "Sunrise Model" namely: Religious and philosophical factors. Kinship and social factors. Cultural values and life ways. Political and legal factors. Economical factors. Educational factors. Technological factors. Nursing Diagnoses There are three nursing diagnosis is often enforced in transcultural nursing care, namely: Impaired verbal communication related to cultural differences, Impaired social interaction related to socio-cultural disorientation, and Ineffective management of therapeutic regimen related to the value system believed. Nursing Planning Cultural care preservation / maintenance Identification of the difference between the client and the nurse concept of childbirth and infant care. Be calm and do not rush when interacting with clie...

Nursing Diagnosis and Interventions for Coarctation of the Aorta (CoA) 1. Decreased cardiac output r / t cardiac malformations. Goal : Maintain adequate cardiac output Interventions : Observation of the quality and strength of the heartbeat, peripheral pulse, skin color and warmth. Assess the degree of cyanosis (circumoral, mucous membranes, clubbing). Monitor signs of CHF (anxiety, tachycardia, tachypnea, tightness, fatigue, periorbital edema, oliguria, and hepatomegaly). Collaboration therapy in accordance with the order, using the toxicity hazard prevention techniques. Give treatment to reduce afterload. Give diuretic as indicated. 2. Impaired gas exchange r / t pulmonary congestion. Goal : Reduce the increased pulmonary vascular resistance Interventions : Monitor the quality and rhythm of breathing. Adjust the position of children with Fowler position. Avoid the child of an infected person. Provide adequate rest. Provide optimal nutrition. Give oxygen if...