You are a student nurse assigned to a 57 year old male patient has come to medical ward to have treatment due to mild to severe cramping in his abdomen and bloody stool. Your initial findings include a mildly obese man who demonstrate guarding of his abdomen especially the left lower quadrant. His vital signs are 168/98, 119,24, 38 degree Celsius and is slightly diaphoretic. He reported periodic constipation. He has had previous episodes of abdominal cramping, but this time the pain is getting worse. He denies having regular exercise and his diet consist of white bread, meat, potatoes and ice cream with fruit and nuts over it. Further assessment he complaints of being thirsty, tired and his urine output is 20 ml for the past hour and stated that his urine is usually dark in color. I. Identify health problem of the patient. (list all of them) II. Based on your list of problem choose 1 problem of each category and write 4 independent nursing management and 1 dependent nursing management
You are a student nurse assigned to a 57 year old male patient has come to medical ward to have treatment due to mild to severe cramping in his abdomen and bloody stool. Your initial findings include a mildly obese man who demonstrate guarding of his abdomen especially the left lower quadrant. His vital signs are 168/98, 119,24, 38 degree Celsius and is slightly diaphoretic. He reported periodic constipation. He has had previous episodes of abdominal cramping, but this time the pain is getting worse. He denies having regular exercise and his diet consist of white bread, meat, potatoes and ice cream with fruit and nuts over it. Further assessment he complaints of being thirsty, tired and his urine output is 20 ml for the past hour and stated that his urine is usually dark in color.
I. Identify health problem of the patient. (list all of them)
II. Based on your list of problem choose 1 problem of each category and write 4 independent nursing management and 1 dependent nursing management
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