Nursing Care Plan - Hypertension

Hypertension refers to a state where a person’s blood pressure remains at an elevated level at all times. This condition is formally known as arterial hypertension and is popularly called high blood pressure.
Two types of hypertension:

Primary Hypertension - when a patient’s chronically elevated blood pressure does not have a specific medical cause that can [...]

Nursing Care Plan - Amoebiasis/Amebiasis (Amoebic Dysentery)

Amoebiasis is a infectious disease caused by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica. It is a parasitic infection of the large intestine and characterized by non specific diarrhea with loose, semi formed, foul smelling stools, or dysentery with mucous, traces of blood and small quantities of stools passed repeatedly. Often there is an ineffectual urge to [...]

Nursing Care Plan - Colon Cancer (Colorectal Cancer)

Colorectal cancer is a disease in which normal cells in the lining of the colon or rectum begin to change, start to grow uncontrollably, and no longer die. These changes usually take years to develop; however, in some cases of hereditary disease, changes can occur within months to years. Both genetic and environmental factors [...]

Nursing Care Plan - Postpartum Hemorrhage

Postpartum hemorrhage is defined as a loss of blood in the postpartum period of more than 500 mL. The average, spontaneous vaginal birth will typically have a 500 mL blood loss. In cesarean births the average blood loss rises to 800-1000 mL. There is a greater risk of hemorrhage in the first 24 hours after [...]

Nursing Care Plan - Hirschsprung’s disease (Congenital Aganglionic Megacolon)

Hirschsprung’s disease (Congenital Aganglionic Megacolon) is the congenital absence of or arrested development of parasympathetic ganglion cells in the intestinal wall, usually in the distal colon.
Signs and symptoms may vary with the severity of the condition. Sometimes they appear right after the baby is born. Other times they may not be apparent until the [...]

Nursing Care Plan - Neonatal Sepsis (Sepsis Neonatorum)

Neonatal sepsis is defined as a clinical syndrome of bacteremia (presence of bacteria in the blood)with systemic signs and symptoms of infection in the first 4 weeks of life. When pathogenic bacteria gain access into the blood stream, they may cause overwhelming infection without much localization (septicemia) or may get predominantly localized to the [...]

Nursing Care Plan - Kyphosis

Kyphosis (Greek - kyphos, a hump), in general terms, is a curvature of the upper spine. It can be either the result of bad posture or a structural anomaly in the spine. In the sense of a deformity, it is the pathological curving of the spine, where parts of the spinal column lose some or [...]

Nursing Care Plan - Pyelonephritis

Pyelonephritis is an inflammation of the kidney and upper urinary tract that usually results from noncontagious bacterial infection of the bladder (cystitis). It presents with dysuria (painful voiding of urine), abdominal pain (radiating to the back on the affected side) and tenderness of the bladder area and the side of the involved kidney (”renal angle [...]

Nursing Care Plan - Abruptio Placenta

Abruptio placenta is premature separation of the normally implanted placenta after the 20th week of pregnancy, typically with severe hemorrhage.
Two types of abruption placentae:
Concealed hemorrhage - the placenta separation centrally, and a large amount of blood is accumulated under the placenta.
External hemorrhage - the separation is along the placental margin, and blood flows under the [...]

Nursing Care Plan - Clubfoot or Talipes Equinovarus

Clubfoot or Talipes Equinovarus is a congenital anomaly in which the foot is plantar flexed at the ankle and subtalar joints, the hind foot is inverted, and the midfoot and forefoot are adducted and inverted. Contractures of the soft tissues maintain the malalignments. The exact cause of clubfoot is unknown, but genetic factors may include [...]