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Assessment is the deliberate and systematic collection of data about a patient. The data will re-veal a patient's current and past health status, functional status, and present and past coping pat-terns. A nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community res-ponses to actual and potential health problems or life processes that the nurse is licensed and competent to treat. Implementation is the performance of nursing interventions necessary for achieving the goals and expected outcomes of nursing care. Evaluation is crucial to deciding whether, after interventions have been delivered, a patient's condition or well-being improves.
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Signs and symptoms associated with hypotension include pallor, skin mottling, clamminess, confusion, dizziness, chest pain, increased heart rate, and decreased urine output. Hypotension is usually life threatening and needs to be reported immediately to the patient's health care provider. Doing nothing can lead to the patient's death. Hypotension occurs when arteries dilate; the peri-pheral vascular resistance decreases, the circulating blood volume decreases, or the heart fails to provide adequate cardiac output.
GI endoscopy. (a) Similar to other forms of GI endoscopy, laparoscopy involves the insertion of a sp
Patient Teaching
A physician uses a portable electronic tablet to enter patient data while in the examination room.
A physical therapist exercising the patient’s leg in a physical therapy department.
Instructing a Patient to Use Crutches Correctly
Gingival enlargement in a patient taking phenytoin.