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NURSING CARE PLAN

ASSESSMENT DIAGNOSIS INFERENCE PLANNING INTERVENTION RATIONALE EVALUATION
SUBJECTIVE: Ineffective The risk of TB is After 8 hours  Monitor respiratory  Respiratory status After 8 hours of
breathing a higher in older of nursing status, including vital assessment helps nursing
The patient may pattern people who have intervention signs, breath sounds, gauge the intervention the
report: related to close contact the patient will: and skin color. patient’s severity patient was
acute with a newly and whether it’s able to:
 Past infection and
diagnosed TB  Promote progressing.
exposure to decreased
TB. lung patient, those good  Administer oxygen  To provide relief  Breathing
who have TB respiratory therapy as ordered. from symptoms of returned to
 Progressive capacity.
before, function and hypoxemia and normal rate
fatigue treat
 Loss of gastrectomy hypoxia. and pattern
infection
appetite patients, and  Monitor ABG levels  ABG levels and  Minimal or
 Promote
 Unexplained those affected and oxygen continuous pulse no signs of
comfort
weight loss. with diabetes saturation as ordered. oximetry infection.
mellitus. The measures the
OBJECTIVE: aging process blood’s oxygen
weakens the content and are
 Cough that immune system, good indicators of
may be further increasing the lung’s ability
nonproductiv the likelihood of
e at first but to oxygenate the
tubercular blood.
later
produces
infection in older  Place the patient in  To increase chest
sputum and adults. semi-fowlers position expansion and to
progresses and place the alleviate dyspnea.
to Transmission diaphragm in proper
hemoptysis. occurs when position to contract.
 Crackles droplet nuclei are  Collect sputum  To monitor the
 Pleuritc pain produced form samples as ordered. progress of the
 Dyspnea an infected disease and
person’s coughs treatment.
or sneezes. If
inhaled, tubercle
bacillus settles in
the alveolus and
infection occurs,
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with
alveolocapillary
dilation and
endothelial
swelling. The
incubation time
for TB is 4 to 8
weeks. TB is
usually
asymptomatic in
primary infection.