Acute Care Nursing in the Home: A Holistic ApproachCatherine Malloy, Jeanette Hartshorn |
Contents
OVERVIEW OF ACUTE CARE | 1 |
Nursing Process and Home Care | 7 |
Discharge Planning in Hospital | 15 |
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activity acute agency airway ALTERATION anxiety artery Assessment assist the client behavior breathing cardiac cardiac output care-giver catheter cause changes chronic client and family coping decrease deficit diabetes diabetes mellitus dialysis diet disease drugs dysfunction dyspnea effective Encourage environment equipment evaluation experience factors family members feeding feelings fluid function glucose Guillain-Barré syndrome home care home health nurse home-care nurse hospital hypoglycemia identify illness impaired increased individual infection injury insulin intake loss lung mechanical ventilation ment monitor multiple sclerosis muscle normal nurse assesses Nursing Diagnosis nursing process nutritional occur Outcome The client oxygen pain patient patterns person physical physician potential prevent problems procedure protein pulmonary renal require respiratory response result risk role seizure sensory sexual sexual dysfunction skin spiritual stoma stress suction symptoms teaching therapy tion tissue tracheostomy treatment tube urinary ventilator wound films