Nursing Care Plan – Fracture
A fracture is a break in the continuity of bone. A fracture occurs when the stress placed on a bone is greater than the bone can absorb. The stress may be mechanical (trauma) or related to a disease process (pathologic). Muscles, blood vessels, nerves, tendons, joints, and body organs may be injured when fracture occurs.
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Nursing Care Plan – Rabies
Rabies is a zoonotic viral disease which infects domestic and wild animals. It is transmitted to other animals and humans through close contact with saliva from infected animals (i.e. bites, scratches, licks on broken skin and mucous membranes). Once symptoms of the disease develop, rabies is fatal to both animals and humans.
The first symptoms of [...]
Nursing Care Plan – Spontaneous Abortion
Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving, generally defined in humans at prior to 20 weeks of gestation. Miscarriage is the most common complication of early pregnancy.
NURSING CARE PLAN – Spontaneous Abortion
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Nursing Care Plan – Dilatation and Curettage (D & C)
Dilatation and curettage, also called as D&C, is a common surgical procedure done on women to scrape and collect the tissue from inside the uterus. The cervical passage in a women leads to the uterus. ‘Dilatation’ is a widening of the cervical passage. This is done using smoothly conical and tapered, graduated metal rods of [...]
Nursing Care Plan – Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
Congestive Heart Failure or CHF is a severe circulatory congestion due to decreased myocardial contractility, which results in the heart’s inability to pump sufficient blood to meet the body’s needs.
About 80% of CHF cases occur before 1 year of age.
Nursing Care Plan – Congestive Heart Failure
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Pathophysiology of Congenital Heart [...]
Nursing Care Plan – Bronchitis
Bronchitis is an inflammation of the air passages within the lungs. It occurs when the trachea (windpipe) and the large and small bronchi (airways) within the lungs become inflamed because of infection or other causes.
Nursing Care Plan – Bronchitis
Acute Bronchitis
Chronic Bronchitis
Nursing Care Plan – Myocardial Infarction
Myocardial infarction (MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart is interrupted causing some heart cells to die. This is most commonly due to occlusion (blockage) of a coronary artery following the rupture of a vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque, which is [...]
Nursing Care Plan – Constipation
Constipation, costiveness, or irregularity, is a condition of the digestive system in which a person experiences hard feces that are difficult to expel.
This usually happens because the colon absorbs too much water from the food. If the food moves through the gastro-intestinal tract too slowly, the colon may absorb too much water, resulting in [...]
Nursing Care Plan – Leukemia
Leukemia is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes). Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases. In turn, it is part of the even broader group of diseases called hematological neoplasms.
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Nursing Care Plan – Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal cord injuries causes myelopathy or damage to white matter or myelinated fiber tracts that carry signals to and from the brain. It also damages gray matter in the central part of the spine, causing segmental losses of interneurons and motorneurons. Spinal cord injury can occur from many causes, including:
Trauma such as automobile crashes, [...]
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