The document describes a patient's acute pain following a mastectomy, noting the patient's subjective report of 9/10 pain, objective signs of restlessness, irritability, and a painful incision with slight redness and warmth. A nursing assessment is provided along with a plan for both short-term and long-term interventions to reduce the patient's pain through non-pharmacological comfort measures, monitoring, rest, and administering prescribed analgesics with the goals of decreasing reported pain levels and preventing infection or other complications.
The document describes a patient's acute pain following a mastectomy, noting the patient's subjective report of 9/10 pain, objective signs of restlessness, irritability, and a painful incision with slight redness and warmth. A nursing assessment is provided along with a plan for both short-term and long-term interventions to reduce the patient's pain through non-pharmacological comfort measures, monitoring, rest, and administering prescribed analgesics with the goals of decreasing reported pain levels and preventing infection or other complications.
The document describes a patient's acute pain following a mastectomy, noting the patient's subjective report of 9/10 pain, objective signs of restlessness, irritability, and a painful incision with slight redness and warmth. A nursing assessment is provided along with a plan for both short-term and long-term interventions to reduce the patient's pain through non-pharmacological comfort measures, monitoring, rest, and administering prescribed analgesics with the goals of decreasing reported pain levels and preventing infection or other complications.
The document describes a patient's acute pain following a mastectomy, noting the patient's subjective report of 9/10 pain, objective signs of restlessness, irritability, and a painful incision with slight redness and warmth. A nursing assessment is provided along with a plan for both short-term and long-term interventions to reduce the patient's pain through non-pharmacological comfort measures, monitoring, rest, and administering prescribed analgesics with the goals of decreasing reported pain levels and preventing infection or other complications.
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Tuano, Salma M.
BSN4-1 ACUTE PAIN
ASSESMENT DIAGNOSIS PLANNING INTERVENTION RATIONALE EVALUATION (Short-Term) (Long-Term) Subjective: Acute Pain After 8 hours After 48 hours of INDEPENDENT: “Bakit sumasakit padin related to post- of nursing nursing intervention -Establish rapport to -To gain the GOAL MET ung inopera saakin? operative incision intervention the patient will the patient and significant others and Ang sakit parin niya at left breast the patient will report pain from significant others. patient’s trust & eh.1 week na ito db? secondary to report 9/10 to 2/10 cooperation during Masakit parin” mastectomy as decrease in the Nursing care & manifested by a pain from 9/10 procedures. Objective: pain scale of 9/10 to 5/10 -Perform Pain -To assess etiology Restlessness assessment and contributing Irritable factors. Pain Scale 9/10 Sharp Pain -Provide -Promotes relaxation radiating from nonpharmacological and helps refocus the post-surgical comfort measures attention. site incision (massage, Slight redness repositioning, and warmth on backrub) and the incision diversional activities Facial Grimace (music, television) V/S of -Accept patient’s -Pain is subjective T- 36.2 description of pain. experience and can’t PR- 90 be felt by others. RR- 20 BP- 130/80 -Monitor Vital Signs. -Usually altered in acute pain.
-Promote calm, quiet -To provide
environment. nonpharmacological Tuano, Salma M. BSN4-1 ACUTE PAIN pain management
-Encourage deep -To lessen sense of
breathing and some anxiety and diversional activities. associated muscle tension
-Encourage -To prevent fatigue
adequate rest periods.
DEPENDENT:
-Administer -To maintain
analgesics as acceptable level of doctor’s prescribed. pain.
-Identify specific sign -To promptly
and symptoms of identifying possible infection on the underlying other surgical site. condition.