The nursing care plan aims to minimize impaired skin integrity and inflammation caused by severe itching and scratching of the feet. Over 5 days of intervention, the patient will be able to display improvement in discomfort and itchiness while minimizing the infected skin area. The long term goal is to fully eliminate impaired skin and inflammation. Planned interventions include keeping the feet clean, dry, and protected while treating the infection daily with antifungal powder. Evaluation after 5 days found the patient displayed less discomfort and a smaller infected area.
Original Description:
Ncp for severe itchiness on right and left foot associated with painoj the scale of 4/10
The nursing care plan aims to minimize impaired skin integrity and inflammation caused by severe itching and scratching of the feet. Over 5 days of intervention, the patient will be able to display improvement in discomfort and itchiness while minimizing the infected skin area. The long term goal is to fully eliminate impaired skin and inflammation. Planned interventions include keeping the feet clean, dry, and protected while treating the infection daily with antifungal powder. Evaluation after 5 days found the patient displayed less discomfort and a smaller infected area.
The nursing care plan aims to minimize impaired skin integrity and inflammation caused by severe itching and scratching of the feet. Over 5 days of intervention, the patient will be able to display improvement in discomfort and itchiness while minimizing the infected skin area. The long term goal is to fully eliminate impaired skin and inflammation. Planned interventions include keeping the feet clean, dry, and protected while treating the infection daily with antifungal powder. Evaluation after 5 days found the patient displayed less discomfort and a smaller infected area.
Nursing Diagnosis Objective of Care Planned Intervention Rationale Implementation Evaluation Subjective cues: Short term goal: At the end of the 5 days › To reduce risk of › Keep the affected At the end of the 5 days “Mmbah ako katuli - To minimize the intervention the patient dermal injury when area clean and dry nursing intervention the pahap bang sangom, impaired skin will be able to: severe itching is › Keep foot dry, patient was able to: katol toongan neyh integrity and - Display improvement present especially between - Display improvement ku. Ati piddi iya bang inflammation in feelings of › To prevent further the toes. in feelings of ni katol sab - To eliminate the discomfort due to invasion of › Change socks discomfort due to toongan.” discomfort felt by the itchiness. microorganism regularly itchiness. (Translated to patient. - Minimize the area of › Moisture potentiates › Alternate pairs of - Minimize the area of English: “I can’t infection skin breakdown shoes infection sleep very well at Long term goal: › To decrease irritable › Wear light, well- night, my foot is very - To fully eliminate the itching, which ventilated shoes itchy. And it is impaired skin usually associated › Protect feet in public painful when I integrity and with pain places scratch it so hard.”) inflammation. › Treat feet- use powder, preferably Objective cues: antifungal, on The following are infected foot daily. observed on the client’s › Don’t share shoes physical appearance: Right and Left Foot: - Scaly red patch surrounding the toes, ranging in size from 2-3 cm - Scaling on the soled that extends up to the side of the foot - Cracked, blistered, or peeling between the toes - Raw skin from scratching Assessment The patient shows symptoms of severe itchiness on right and left foot, which is associated with pain on the scale of 4/10.