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Nursing Care Plan: Case Study

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Mrs. Sagambell is a resident of a nursing home. she has been placed in a care home due to her family's inability to care for her. Mrs. Sagambell has fallen 4 times in the past month. her daughter, Marlene, advises that the patient has been forgetful lately and she feels concerned. You assess Mrs. Sagambell and you notice that her urine foul smelling. the patient reports "it hurts when I tinkle".
1. use the prompt to prepare a nursing care plan with 2 pertinent nursing diagnoses
2. List the nursing diagnoses in order of priority (1 being the heist priority)
3. Document the patient findings using the nursing process on the care plan:
1. Assessment: Subject and Objective assessment data from the prompt
2. Diagnosis: minimum 2 nursing diagnosis
3. Plannin: Expected outcomes
4. Interventions: Nursing that would be taken for each nursing diagnosis
5. Evaluation: Met/ unmet or partially met
4. Use the provided care plan template (use of an unapproved template with receive an automatic zero)
5. Provide the rationale for choosing the interventions listed in the care plan
6. pay attention to detail and make sure that the interventions are directly related to your nursing diagnosis
7. provide options for all possible outcomes: Met, Unmet and partially met.

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Nursing Care Plan
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course ID
Instructor’s Name
Due Date
Nursing Care Plan
Student Name
Date


Patient(Initials only)


Patient Medical Diagnosis

1 Urinary Tract Infection.
2 Hypoglycemia



Assessment Data

Goals & Outcome

Nursing Intervention

Rationale

Outcome Evaluation & Re-planning

Foul Smelling Urine
Burning Sensation During Urination
Memory loss
Falls

1 Urinary Tract Infection
After the nursing intervention, the UTI will clear, as evidenced by non-foul smelling urine.
After nursing intervention, the burning sensation will clear.
2.Hypoglycemia
After the nursing intervention, the patient will acknowledge the main factors contributing to varying glucose levels.
After the nursing intervention, the client will able to attain and maintain glucose within the required range.

Conduct an assessment for signs and symptoms of a UTI.
Assess for the risk factor of UTI
Urinalysis
Urine Culture and Sensitivity.
Encourage the patient to take fluids frequently.
Encourage the patient to void often at least 3 hours each day.
Encourage the client to complete the antibiotic dose.
Monitor Urine for UTI.
Monitor for signs of hypoglycemia.
Assess the patient’s knowledge of diet.
Assess the patient’s engagement in physical activity.
Encourage the patient to take hypoglycemic medication as instructed.
Inform the client on how to conduct home glucose testing.
Emphasize the need to attain blood glucose control.

Common symptoms of a UTI are reports of burning sensation during urination, cloudy urine, and foul smell in urine (Grabe et al., 2015).
A history of previous surgeries of the genitourinary tract is one of the risk factors that could lead to the development of a UTI (Grabe et al., 2015). Blockage of the urinary tract, which an enlarged prostate can cause, also increases the risk of a urinary tract infection.
The presence of Red Blood Cells and White Blood Cells in the urine results from inflammation during Infection.
It will help in determining the appropriate antibiotics to treat the Infection.
Fluid intake helps in flushing bacteria from the urinary tract (Grabe et al., 2015).
It will help in preventing bladder distention and reduce the risk of reinfection. Also, it helps in flushing the bacteria (Echaiz et al., 2015).
Patients should complete t...
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