In: Nursing
Submit Care Plan using the nursing method
1) Provide a care plan for elderly patient that has been admitted with a medical dignosis of fractured hip and second day post op for hip arthroplasty
Ans.) The nursing care plan for a patients who have a hip fracture is given below -
Assesment |
Diagnosis |
Planning | Intervention | Rationales | Evolution | |
Subjective: None Objective: Pain is elicited with rotation Ecchymosis |
Plain radiography is the initial diagnostic test for hip fracture. A cross-table lateral view of the hip and an anteroposterior view of the pelvis are appropriate. | After surgery, patient is offered a falls and bone health assessment and a anagement plan based on this assessment, to reduce the risk of another fracture. | Nonsurgical interventions are reserved for patients with severe debilitation, unstable patients with major uncorrectable diseases, nonambulatory patients, or patients at the end stages of a terminal illness. | Pain is highly subjective and identify the effectiveness of intravenous injection. | After series of nursing intervention goals are met as the patient have decresed pain and is slowly able to walk after 10-15 days of surgery. |