Nursing Assessment for Osteoarthritis
- Activity / Rest
- Joint pain due to movement, tenderness worsened by stress on the joints, stiffness in the morning, usually occurs bilaterally and symmetrically functional limitations that affect lifestyle, leisure, work, fatigue, malaise.
- Limitation of movement, muscle atrophy, skin: contractor / abnormalities in the joints and muscles.
- Cardiovascular
- Raynaud's phenomenon of the hand (eg litermiten pale, cyanosis and redness on the fingers before the color returned to normal.
- Ego Integrity
- Stress factors of acute / chronic (eg, financial jobs, disability, relationship factors.
- Hopelessness and helplessness (inability situation).
- Threats to the self-concept, body image, personal identity, for example dependence on others.
- Food / Fluids
- The inability to produce or consume food or liquids adequately nausea, anorexia.
- Difficulty chewing, weight loss, dryness of mucous membranes.
- Hygiene
- The difficulties to implement self-care activities, dependence on others.
- Neurosensory
- Tingling in hands and feet, swollen joints
- Pain / comfort
- The acute phase of pain (probably not accompanied by soft tissue swelling in the joints. chronic pain and stiffness (especially in the morning).
- Security
- Skin shiny, taut, nodules sub mitaneus
- Skin lesions, foot ulcers
- The difficulty in handling the task / household maintenance
- Mild fever settled
- Dryness in the eyes and mucous membranes
- Social Interaction
- Damage interaction with family or others, the changing role: isolation.
- Counseling / Learning
- Family history of rheumatic
- The use of health foods, vitamins, cure disease without testing
- History pericarditis, valve lesion edge. Pulmonary fibrosis, pleuritis.
Source : http://nanda-nursing.blogspot.com/2011/01/nursing-care-plan-for-osteoarthritis.html
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