Question

construct a nursing care plan for a syphilis patient that involves assessment, physiological, psychological and potential diagnosis , planning, intervention, and evaluation?

Answer 1

Nursing care plan

Assessment :-

Subjective data:- Patient will have complaints of painless sore on the genitals,rectum or mouth.They also might have multiple sexual partners for the past 3 months.They will be complaining that they are afraid of having STD.

Objective data :- The patient will have painless ,red, ulcerated sore on genitals, rectum or mouth.The blood sample will be positive for syphilis.

Nursing diagnosis:-Risk for infection transmission related to contact transmission exposure, multiple sexual partners, evidence by positive blood for syphilis.

Goal:-The patient will be able to understand the disease transmission, management and prevention.

Nursing interventions:-

* Educate the patient to abstain from sexual activity to prevent contact transmission until the healing of the sore.

* Explain about the importance of prevention of sexually transmitted disease.

*Advise the patient to inform the sexual partners he/she had contact last 3 months and test for syphilis.

* Explain about the disease, signs and symptoms, management and its complication.

Evaluation:- Patient will verbalize that they understood the disease, management and prevention.

Other nursing diagnosis for syphilis:-

*Anxiety related to the disease process and its transmission.

Alteration in comfort pain related to sore on genitals related to disease process.

Potential for infection related to disease process.

Potential for complication related to disease process