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21 NURSING PROBLEMS
Background
• Born -March13.1919
• Nursing Diploma from Fitkin Memorial
Hospital
Columbia University
• Bachelors Degree in Nursing 1945
• Masters Degree in Physiology 1947
• Doctorate in Education 1955
May 6, 1937
• German hydrogen-fueled
airship Hindenburg
exploded in Lakehurst, New
Jersey
• “First woman to
become a surgeon
general as a nurse”
Do everything possible to alleviate patients’ pain and make them feel
comfortable.
We involve family and friends in every phase of our patients’ care.
• Patient is
described as the
only justification
for the existence of
nursing.
Health
• Does not give a definition of health
• “Total health needs” and “a healthy state
of mind and body” in her description of
nursing as a comprehensive service.
Environment
• Home or community from which patient comes.
Physiologic
Psychological
PATIENT Sociologic
four categories of patient needs
• Basic to all patients
• Sustenal care needs
• Remedial care needs
• Restorative care
needs.
Twenty-One Nursing
Problems
Serve as a knowledge base for nursing
( Categorized according to needs)
BASIC TO ALL PATIENTS
1. To maintain good hygiene and physical comfort –
After colonoscopy, patients are usually soiled from
the procedure. It is therefore important to clean
them properly. Physical comfort through proper
positioning in bed.
2. To promote optimal activity: exercise, rest, and
sleep – Patients who were sedated during the
procedure stay in the unit until the effect of the
sedation has decreased to a safe level. As a nurse,
make sure the patients are able to rest and sleep
well by providing a conducive environment for rest,
such as decreasing environmental noise and
dimming the light if necessary.
3. To promote safety through prevention of
accident, injury, or other trauma and
through the prevention of the spread of
infection – one way we prevent the spread
of infection is through proper disinfection
of the equipments . Bed alarm , call light at
all times
4. To maintain good body mechanics and
prevent and correct deformity – Positioning
the patient properly, allowing for the
normal anatomical position of body parts.
SUSTENAL CARE NEEDS
5. facilitate the maintenance of a supply of oxygen to all
body cells – when patients manifest breathing problems,
oxygen is attached to them. Sedated patients are attached
to cardiac monitor and pulse oxi meter while having the
oxygen delivered. When the oxygen saturation falls below
the normal levels, the rate of oxygen is increased
accordingly, as per physician's order.
Test generalizations with the patient Identify how the nurse feels about
and make additional generalizations the patient’s nursing problems