Question

You are caring for an adolescent in an outpatient clinic who has been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI).

After reading your assigned readings on STIs, develop a plan of care for this client with the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis of Deficient knowledge.

Answer 1

Deficient knowledge related to the sexually transmitted disease as evidenced by innocence, awareness ,verbalisation

Subjective data

• Pain,discomfort ,itching, discharge

Objective data

• Aggressive, agitative
• Hesitating to talk
• Poor concentration during conversation
• Showing interest in other things when professionals communicate
• Trying to isolate from others

Goal:

• To relieve the patient from infection if treatable and to preventits recurrence
• Manage the symptoms effectively

Nursing intervention and rationale

• Encourage the patient to verbalize all the feeling and queries,this helps to plan for care as per patient needs
• Assess patients knowledge in regards to disease condition,helps to identify the patients learning capacity and interest to address and manage the issue
• Provide a trust worthy therapeutic communication ,this induces confidence in patient to come out and speak any confidential matters
• Plan a care in accordance with the patient's culture and beliefs because STI are common in some ethnic group
• Assess for any multiple partners or in relationship ,so that the patient can be educated to inform them about the infection and follow abstinence to prevent cross infection
• Educate in the language the patient best understands

Evaluation

The patient will be able to describe in detail about the management of the disease