Date Assessment Nursing Expected Outcomes Nursing Interventions Rationale Evaluation Criteria

Data Diagnosis
08/01/ Pattern of Readiness for Patient will:  Evaluate  Provides  Patient can
2018 Coping and enhanced  Assess current patient’s information access
Stress Coping situation ability to about client’s current
accurately. understand perception, situation
 Identify events and cognitive accurately,
effective provide ability, and identify
coping realistic whether the effective
behaviors appraisal of client is aware coping
currently being situation. of the facts of behaviors
used. the situation. and
 Verbalize This is verbalize
feelings essential for feelings
congruent with planning care. congruent
behavior. with
 Meet  Assess level  Provides behavior
psychological of anxiety and information for based on an
needs as coping on an baseline to awareness
evidenced by ongoing basis. develop plan of of the
appropriate care to improve current
expression of coping status of the
feelings, abilities. stressful
identification situation.
of options, and  Evaluate  Understanding  Patient has
use of client’s client’s ability met
resources. decision- provides a psychologic
making starting point al needs as
ability. for developing evidenced
plan by
and appropriate
determining expression
what of feelings,
 information identificatio
client needs to n of options,
develop and use of
more effective resources
coping skills. and
available
 Discuss  Acceptance of support
understanding reality that systems,
of concept of some things such as
knowing what cannot be family and
can and changed allows friends. This
cannot be client to focus has provided
changed. energies on patient with
dealing the ability to
with things that handle
can be current
changed. stressful
 An events and
 Assist client to individualized often
create a stress program of “talking it
management relaxation, out” which
program. meditation, has helped
involvement patient
with caring for move
others/pets will forward to
enhance coping enhance
skills. coping
 Determine  Accurate skills.
stressors that identification
are currently of situation that
affecting client is dealing
client. with provides
information for
planning
interventions to
enhance coping
abilities.