David Hopper has been diagnosed with cancer and is at risk of anticipatory grieving and malnutrition due to his disease process and medications. His care plan aims to help him identify and express emotions related to his condition, understand the grieving process, and set realistic goals for the future through therapeutic communication and counseling referrals. It also focuses on achieving stable weight and normal lab values by monitoring his food intake, supplementing meals, and evaluating his antiemetic and analgesic medications to address nutrition imbalances from less than body requirements. The care plan will be evaluated based on Hopper's awareness and understanding of grieving, demonstration of stable weight and absence of signs of malnutrition, and normalization of lab values.
David Hopper has been diagnosed with cancer and is at risk of anticipatory grieving and malnutrition due to his disease process and medications. His care plan aims to help him identify and express emotions related to his condition, understand the grieving process, and set realistic goals for the future through therapeutic communication and counseling referrals. It also focuses on achieving stable weight and normal lab values by monitoring his food intake, supplementing meals, and evaluating his antiemetic and analgesic medications to address nutrition imbalances from less than body requirements. The care plan will be evaluated based on Hopper's awareness and understanding of grieving, demonstration of stable weight and absence of signs of malnutrition, and normalization of lab values.
David Hopper has been diagnosed with cancer and is at risk of anticipatory grieving and malnutrition due to his disease process and medications. His care plan aims to help him identify and express emotions related to his condition, understand the grieving process, and set realistic goals for the future through therapeutic communication and counseling referrals. It also focuses on achieving stable weight and normal lab values by monitoring his food intake, supplementing meals, and evaluating his antiemetic and analgesic medications to address nutrition imbalances from less than body requirements. The care plan will be evaluated based on Hopper's awareness and understanding of grieving, demonstration of stable weight and absence of signs of malnutrition, and normalization of lab values.
David Hopper has been diagnosed with cancer and is at risk of anticipatory grieving and malnutrition due to his disease process and medications. His care plan aims to help him identify and express emotions related to his condition, understand the grieving process, and set realistic goals for the future through therapeutic communication and counseling referrals. It also focuses on achieving stable weight and normal lab values by monitoring his food intake, supplementing meals, and evaluating his antiemetic and analgesic medications to address nutrition imbalances from less than body requirements. The care plan will be evaluated based on Hopper's awareness and understanding of grieving, demonstration of stable weight and absence of signs of malnutrition, and normalization of lab values.
Anticipatory Grieving related to Identify and express emotions Practice therapeutic Is patient aware of grieving loss of well-being, change in communication skills including process? lifestyle, potential loss of life Verbalize understanding of the active listening process, patient feels Does patient demonstrate supported in the grieving Encourage patient to verbalize understanding of the disease process feelings process? Redirect negative thinking Is patient demonstrating denial of process? Appropriate referral for counselling, as necessary Does the patient show appropriate affect? Appropriate referral to community agencies including Is patient setting realistic goals visiting nurse and/or hospice, for the future? if appropriate Imbalanced Nutrition: Less Demonstrate stable weight. Monitor daily food intake Weight loss has ceased. Weight than Body Requirements is stable or increasing. related to disease process Signs of malnutrition are Measure weight daily (cancer), medication side absent Adequate intake has been Assess skin and mucosal recorded. effects Normal lab values achieved membranes for signs of dehydration, altered wound No signs of dehydration or healing malnutrition are present. Encourage the use of meal Laboratory values have supplements normalized. Encourage more frequent but Current medication regime is smaller meals effective and appropriate. Evaluate effectiveness of antiemetic, analgesic medications