Nursing Care Plan For Pregnant Client (Fatigue)

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The key takeaways from the passage are that fatigue during pregnancy can be caused by hormonal changes, lack of sleep, and medical conditions. Nursing interventions like developing a schedule, setting priorities, and delegating tasks can help address fatigue. Exercise and developing good sleep habits can also help reduce fatigue.

According to the passage, fatigue during pregnancy can be caused by hormonal changes, lack of sleep, medical conditions like anemia, and stress or emotional concerns like depression or anxiety.

Some nursing interventions mentioned to help address fatigue include developing a schedule for daily activity and rest, helping the patient set priorities and delegate tasks, encouraging exercise, and helping engage in increasing levels of physical activity.

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Scientific Analysis Objectives Nursing Interventions Rationale Evaluation


Cues
I. Physiologic Fatigue can mean feeling After 2-3 days of nurse-client >Assess the following >This allows the nurse
Fatigue related to tired, sleepy or lacking interaction, the patient would characteristics of fatigue: to compare changes in
sleep deprivation energy. Fatigue may be be able to: -severity the patient’s fatigue
and pregnancy. due to medical causes,  manifest comfort, -changes in severity over level over tie. It is
lifestyle or emotional ease, and alertness time important to
S: “Maglisod jud ko concerns or stress.  actively participates in -aggrevating factors determine if the
usahay ug katug Depression, anxiety or nursing activities to be -alleviating factors patient’s level of
dong. Mahadlok grief can all cause fatigue. done fatigue is constant or
man gud ko kay Too little or too much  verbalize adequate if it varies over time.
mukalit man gud sleep can cause fatigue. number of hours of
ug sakit akong Medical causes of fatigue sleep from previous >Assist the patient to >A plan that balances
tiyan.” may include flu, glandular rest and express develop a schedule for periods of activity
fever, anaemia, sleep relief daily activity and rest with periods of rest
O: -drowsiness disorders such as sleep  display effectiveness can help the patient
-irritability apnoea or restless leg in doing usual physical complete desired
-lethargic syndrome, CFS/ME activity activities without
-tired (formerly known as adding to levels of
-withdrawal chronic fatigue syndrome fatigue.
from nursing or myalgic
activities encephalopathy), >Help patient set priorities >Setting priorities is
-compromised hypothyroidism, heart for desired activities and one example of an
concentration problems, cancer and role responsibilities. energy conservation
other conditions. technique that allows
the patient to use
It's possible that hormonal available energy to
changes — in particular, a accomplish important
dramatic rise in activities. Achieving
progesterone — are desired goals can
contributing to your improve the patient’s
sluggishness. And you may mood and sense of
be having trouble getting emotional well-being.
a good night's sleep,
especially if you're >Encourage the patient to >Delegating tasks and
uncomfortable or getting identify tasks that can be responsibilities to
up to use the bathroom delegated to others. others can help the
frequently. patient conserve
energy
Reference:
http://www.better >Help the patient engage in >Exercise can reduce
health.vic.gov.au/ increasing levels of physical fatigue and help the
bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/ activity and exercise patient build
pages/Fatigue_explained endurance for
(October 2008) physical activity

http://www.babycenter.co >Help the patient develop >Promoting relaxation


m/0_fatigue-during- habits to promote effective before sleep and
pregnancy_2911.bc rest/sleep patterns providing for several
(June 2006) hours of
uninterrupted sleep
can contribute to
energy restoration

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