Nursing Intervention For Acute Pain Related To Pericarditis
Impaired physical mobility related to restriction of mobilization due to pain.
Nursing intervention for acute pain related to pericarditis. In addition the nurse needs to be aware of the causes risk factors and management of pericarditis. May hear a pericardial friction rub muffled heart sounds or extra sounds because of the pressure being placed on the heart. Monitor the patient pain level and effectiveness of analgesics. Impaired comfort related to acute pain.
Monitor for cardiac tamponade fluid compressing the heart. Nursing interventions and rationales. Impaired walking related to immobiliser plaster dressing to fractured tibia bone for pain. Nursing care plan for pericarditis pericarditis is an inflammation of the outermost layer of the heart the thin membrane that surrounds the heart h.
Chest pain with or with out radiation facial grimacing clutching of hands or chest. Acute pain related to inflammation of the pericardium. There are various types of nursing intervention for pericarditis those are mentioned in the below. Winter griffith md 1994.
Collaborative problems potential complications pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade. Assess patient s pain very painful keep patient in high fowler s position avoid supine because this relieves pain. Advise bed rest or chair rest in a sitting upright and leaning forward position. There are different types of pericarditis such as acute and chronic pericarditis.
Pericarditis may be classified as acute or chronic. Assess heart and lung sounds. Administer prescribed pain medication such as morphine to relieve pain. Patient describes satisfactory pain control at a level less than 3 to 4 on a rating scale of 0 to 10.
Just needs rest and it will go away on its own. Patient demonstrates the use of appropriate diversional activities and relaxation skills. Every nursing care plan has 5 main. Monitor patient pain level and evaluate pain within 30 minutes.
As the nurse it is important to know how to care for a patient with pericarditis. Pericarditis is divided into three namely acute pericarditis chronic pericarditis and chronic constrictive pericarditis. Nursing interventions for pericarditis. It s possible but unlikely that you will hear fluid in the lungs in cardiac tamponade the lungs will be clear.
Nursing interventions relieving pain. Nursing intervention for pericarditis disease. Nursing management nursing diagnoses. Here are the nursing care plan for acute pain.