Question

Your patient is a 35-year-old African American female patient that has allergic rhinitis. Her prescriptions include loratadine 5mg/day and fluticasone two nasal inhalations per day. Previously she had taken OTC drugs and asked if she could continue to take the OTC drugs with her prescription. She has never used a nasal inhaler before. She is admitted to your unit with a fever of 103? and you are supposed to take care of her. Write a care plan for this patient, providing six goals each with non-pharmacological interventions and scientific rationales that you would use. Present your interventions and scientific rationales in the form of a table in the attached word document.

Answer 1

The following are the plan of non pharmacological care which can be done to this 35 year female patient with allergic rhinitis

Goals	Intervention	Rationale
Impaired thermo regulation related to increased body temperature	Cold /tapid sponge Increase fluid intake cold blankets	brings down body temperature prevents temperature to be raised
Impaired breathing pattern related to blocked nose due to inflammation	Steam inhaltion encourage breathing excercise provide good ventilaion Monitor saturation level if needed	relieves blockage enhances lung function avoids allergens
Risk for infection related to infection	Hand hygiene Healthy diet	prevents nosocomial,cross infection improves immunity
Disturbed sleep pattern related to disease condition	Provide calm and quiet environment Comfortable position	induces sleep Encorages breathing pattern
Risk for side effects related to the use of medications	Asses for any reactions	Symptomatic treatment can be given
Health education related to the disease condition	Inform about not to use OTC	may lead to life threatening side effects