Number: 00038

Diagnose: Risk for Trauma

Definition: Vulnerable to accidental tissue injury (e.g., wound, burn, fracture), which may
compromise health.

NOC: 1104 Bone Healing

Definition: Extent of regeneration of cells and tissues following bone injury

1= Severe thru 5= None

110401 Hematoma 12345
110407 Pain 12345
110408 Edema 12345
110410 Infection in surrounding tissue 12345
110411 Infection in bone 12345

NIC : 5326 Life Skills Enhancement

Definition: Developing an individual’s ability to independently and effectively deal with the
demands and challenges
of everyday life

 Establish rapport by using empathy, warmth, spontaneity, organization, patience, and

persistence
 Determine the life skill learning needs of the patient, family, group, or community
 Appraise the patient’s educational level
 Determine level of knowledge of the life skill
 Appraise the patient’s current level of skill and understanding of the content
 Appraise the patient’s learning style
 Mutually agree upon goals for the life skills program
 Determine number of sessions and length of time of the program
 Enhance motivation by setting achievable incremental goals
 Appraise the patient’s cognitive, psychomotor, and affective abilities and disabilities
 Determine the patient’s ability to learn specific information (i.e., consider the patient’s
developmental level, physiological status, orientation, pain, fatigue, unfulfilled basic
needs, emotional state, and adaptation to illness)
 Determine the patient’s motivation to learn specific information (i.e., consider the
patient’s health beliefs, past noncompliance, bad experiences with health care or
learning, and conflicting goals)
 Select appropriate teaching methods and strategies
 Select appropriate educational materials
 Tailor the content to the patient’s cognitive, psychomotor, and affective abilities and
disabilities
  Break more complex skills into their stepwise components to enable incremental
progress
 Adjust instruction to facilitate learning, as appropriate
 Provide an environment conducive to learning
 Use role-playing of appropriate behaviors with scenarios that simulate real life
interpersonal interactions
 Provide positive feedback contingent on improvements in the patient’s improved
learning skill
 Use assignments to practice and enhance the performance of new skills in real life
situations
 Instruct on strategies designed to enhance communication skills, if needed
 Provide assertiveness training, if needed
 Use strategies to enhance the patient’s self awareness
 Provide appropriate social skills training, if needed
 Assist the patient to solve problems in a constructive manner
 Instruct patient how to manage conflict, if needed
 Instruct patient in setting priorities and decision making
 Assist patient in values clarification
 Provide instruction on time management, if needed
 Provide instruction on diet, nutrition, and food preparation, if needed
 Instruct patient in the use of stress management techniques, as appropriate
 Instruct patient on how to manage their illness symptoms, if appropriate
 Instruct patient on medication management, if appropriate
 Instruct the patient on workplace fundamentals (e.g., improving job performance,
leaning about specific workplace and performance expectations, making friends and
appropriate socializing)
 Identify and arrange for participation in leisure activities
 Provide assistance in managing finances and creating a budget, if indicated
 Include the family or significant others, as appropriate

Rationale for NIC chosen :

 Determine the patient's ability to learn specific information especially on his pain and
emotional state
 giving knowledge about the nutritious food needed for recovery
 teaches patients about stress management techniques