RN Heals 2013 Batch 4 Applications | How to Apply

It has been reported that the program RN Heals 2013 Batch 4 are going to hire approximately 22, 500 new nurses for the coming year. I know a lot of nurses out there especially the ones who recently passed the Nurse Licensure Examination and nurses who has been out of the profession for years due to lack of opportunity. Well this is a good news to nurses who has been waiting for the opening of the 4th batch of RN HEALS because some Philippine provinces have reported that the online application for RN HEALS 2013 is currently ongoing in their province....

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Nursing Care Plan for Typhoid Fever

Typhoid fever is a systemic infection characterized by continued fever, malaria, anorexia, slow pulse, involvement of lymphoid tissues, especially ulceration of Peyer's patches, enlargement of spleen, rose spots on trunk and diarrhea. Many mild typical infections are often unrecognized. A usual fatality of 10% is reduced to 2 to 3% by antibiotic therapy. Etiologic Agent: Salmonella typosa, typhod bacillus Source of Infection: Feces and urine of infected persons. Family contacts may be transient carrier. Carrier state is common among persons over...

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Nursing Care Plan for Cholera

A cholera is an acute serious illness characterized by sudden onset of acute and profuse colorless diarrhea, vomiting, severe dehydration, muscular cramps, cyanosis and in severe cases collapse. Etiologic Agent: Vibrio El Tor Sources of Infection: Vomitus and feces of infected persons and feces of convalescent or healthy carriers. Contacts may be temporary carriers. Mode of Transmission: Food and water contaminated with vomitus and stools of patients and carriers. Incubation Period: From few hours to 5 days; usually 3 days Period of Communicability:...

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Nursing Care Plan for Genetic Counseling

Genetic counseling is a communication process that deals with human problems associated with the occurrence or risk of a genetic disorder in a family. Counseling involves genetic screening, whereby a high-risk or general population is analyzed to detect the presence of disease, and case finding for couples at potential risk based on medical/family histories. The process can be prospective (counseling delivered to a client/couple of reproductive age before conception or before the birth of an affected child), or it can be retrospective/postnatal...

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Nursing Care Plan for Elective Termination

Therapeutic abortion may be done to safeguard the woman’s health, or a voluntary abortion may be a woman’s reproductive decision. NURSING PRIORITIES 1. Evaluate biopsychosocial status. 2. Promote/augment coping strategies. 3. Provide emotional support. 4. Prevent postprocedural complications. 5. Provide appropriate instruction/information. DISCHARGE GOALS 1. Free of complications following procedure 2. Coping effectively with situation 3. Specific therapeutic needs and concerns understood Nursing diagnosis: Risk for Decisional Conflict may be...

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Nursing Care Plan for Postpartum Hemorrhage

Postpartal hemorrhage is usually defined as the loss of more than 500 ml of blood during or after delivery. It is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality. Hemorrhage may occur early, within the first 24 hr after delivery, or late, up to 28 days postpartum (the end of the puerperium). NURSING PRIORITIES 1. Maintain or restore circulating volume/tissue perfusion. 2. Prevent complications. 3. Provide information and appropriate support for client/couple. 4. Have plan in place to meet needs after discharge. DISCHARGE GOALS 1. Tissue perfusion/organ...

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Nursing Care Plan for Postpartum Thrombophlebitis

Superficial thrombophlebitis is seen more often during the postpartal period than during pregnancy and is more common in women with preexisting varices. Postpartal deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and superficial thrombophlebitis have been attributed to trauma to pelvic veins from pressure of the presenting fetal part, sluggish circulation caused by mechanical edema, and alterations in coagulation related to the large amounts of estrogens produced during pregnancy. Thrombosis that involves only the superficial veins of the leg or thigh is unlikely to...

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Nursing Care Plan for Precipitous Labor

Rapid progression of labor, lasting less than 3 hr from onset to delivery, and out-of-hospital delivery are emergency situations that place the client/fetus at increased risk for complications and/or untoward outcomes. The attending nurse may have primary responsibility for the safety of the mother and fetus. NURSING PRIORITIES 1. Promote maternal and fetal/newborn well-being. 2. Provide a physiologically and psychologically safe experience for client and newborn. 3. Prevent complications. Nursing diagnosis of precipitous labor: Anxiety may be...

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Nursing Care Plan for Keratoplasty

Keratoplasty is the surgical removal of a scared cornea and transplantation of a donor cornea to treat corneal degeneration and dystrophies, opacities, scarring, injuries. Types of corneal grafts include penetrating, lamellar, keyhole lamellar. Nursing diagnosis for keratoplasty: Anxiety related to threat to health status caused by possible loss of vision or transplant injection. Expected Outcomes: Anxiety within manageable levels of evidenced by verbalizations that anxiety and fear reduced and feeling relaxed. Nursing intervention with rationale: I....

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Nursing Care Plan for Precipitous Labor

Rapid progression of labor, lasting less than 3 hr from onset to delivery, and out-of-hospital delivery are emergency situations that place the client/fetus at increased risk for complications and/or untoward outcomes. The attending nurse may have primary responsibility for the safety of the mother and fetus. NURSING PRIORITIES 1. Promote maternal and fetal/newborn well-being. 2. Provide a physiologically and psychologically safe experience for client and newborn. 3. Prevent complications. Nursing diagnosis of precipitous labor: Anxiety may be...

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