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Example Nursing Diagnosis for Syncope (Fainting)
- Risk for Injury: Syncope can result in falls and injuries. This diagnosis highlights the potential for harm and the need for fall prevention strategies.
- Anxiety: Patients who have experienced syncope may have anxiety about its recurrence. This diagnosis addresses their emotional well-being.
- Altered Cerebral Perfusion: Syncope causes a temporary decrease in cerebral blood flow. This diagnosis focuses on monitoring and managing cerebral perfusion.
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Hey everyone. Today, we are going to be creating a nursing care plan for syncope, or fainting. So let's get started. First, we're going to go over the pathophysiology. So, syncope is essentially loss of consciousness, which is typically caused by hypertension. The brain lacks adequate blood flow, causing temporary loss of consciousness. Some nursing considerations. We want to prevent injury, slow position changes, reevaluating medications, any changes in LOS. We want to promote fluid intake. Some desired outcomes. We want no additional syncope events, no injury, identification of cause and treatment to prevent that further episode.
So we're going to go ahead and get into the care plan. We're going to be writing some subjective data and we're going to be writing out some objective data. So what are we going to see in this patient? So we're going to see that they're going to complain of some nausea and possible blurred vision. They'll also be hypotensive and bradycardic. Other things, they are probably going to be feeling a little cold, clammy, possibly warm,and experience some blurred vision, vomiting, loss of consciousness, possible arrhythmias, and confusion. Disorientation is a big one.
So interventions that we want to do: we want to make sure that we are preventing injury, Sudden loss of consciousness puts patients at a higher risk for falls. So you want to make sure your patient has non-skid socks, making sure that they're not walking around without assistance. The beds in the lower locked position necessary items are within reach for the patient. Make sure the call lights are within reach for the patient and the side rails are up. We want to educate the patient to change positions slowly. This enables blood pressure to accommodate those position changes and hopefully prevents future episodes. Another invention we're going to be doing is reevaluating their medications. So, which medications are they on that could be causing them to be pretty hypertensive; in particular, blood pressure medications may need to be spaced out or the doses may need to be adjusted. So these are things to discuss with the physician. Now an intervention we're going to be doing is monitoring for changes in their level of consciousness, monitor appropriately for any changes and make sure you're notifying the physician if there are any changes in the patient. We always want to make sure we're promoting safety. Now, an intervention we're going to be doing is to promote adequate fluid intake. So by increasing fluids, we want to prevent any worsening hypotension. Another intervention we're going to be doing is education. Always want to make sure we're educating the patient on their treatment plan and any protocols or interventions that we're putting in place.
Okay, we're going to go over the key points here. So syncope is essentially loss of consciousness, which is caused by hypertension. The brain's lacking adequate blood flow causing temporary loss of consciousness. Some subjective objective data. They're going to have nausea, feel cold, clammy, warm, tunnel vision, or blurred vision, loss of consciousness, hypotension, bradycardic, and confusion. We want to make sure we're preventing injury, educating the patient on the slow positioning changes. So if they're going from laying down to sitting up, make sure they're doing that slowly or from sitting position to standing. We want to reevaluate their medications and monitor for changes in their level of consciousness and encourage fluid intake to prevent any further hypotension. And there you have that care plan.
Awesome. We love you guys. Go out, be your best self today and as always happy nursing.
So we're going to go ahead and get into the care plan. We're going to be writing some subjective data and we're going to be writing out some objective data. So what are we going to see in this patient? So we're going to see that they're going to complain of some nausea and possible blurred vision. They'll also be hypotensive and bradycardic. Other things, they are probably going to be feeling a little cold, clammy, possibly warm,and experience some blurred vision, vomiting, loss of consciousness, possible arrhythmias, and confusion. Disorientation is a big one.
So interventions that we want to do: we want to make sure that we are preventing injury, Sudden loss of consciousness puts patients at a higher risk for falls. So you want to make sure your patient has non-skid socks, making sure that they're not walking around without assistance. The beds in the lower locked position necessary items are within reach for the patient. Make sure the call lights are within reach for the patient and the side rails are up. We want to educate the patient to change positions slowly. This enables blood pressure to accommodate those position changes and hopefully prevents future episodes. Another invention we're going to be doing is reevaluating their medications. So, which medications are they on that could be causing them to be pretty hypertensive; in particular, blood pressure medications may need to be spaced out or the doses may need to be adjusted. So these are things to discuss with the physician. Now an intervention we're going to be doing is monitoring for changes in their level of consciousness, monitor appropriately for any changes and make sure you're notifying the physician if there are any changes in the patient. We always want to make sure we're promoting safety. Now, an intervention we're going to be doing is to promote adequate fluid intake. So by increasing fluids, we want to prevent any worsening hypotension. Another intervention we're going to be doing is education. Always want to make sure we're educating the patient on their treatment plan and any protocols or interventions that we're putting in place.
Okay, we're going to go over the key points here. So syncope is essentially loss of consciousness, which is caused by hypertension. The brain's lacking adequate blood flow causing temporary loss of consciousness. Some subjective objective data. They're going to have nausea, feel cold, clammy, warm, tunnel vision, or blurred vision, loss of consciousness, hypotension, bradycardic, and confusion. We want to make sure we're preventing injury, educating the patient on the slow positioning changes. So if they're going from laying down to sitting up, make sure they're doing that slowly or from sitting position to standing. We want to reevaluate their medications and monitor for changes in their level of consciousness and encourage fluid intake to prevent any further hypotension. And there you have that care plan.
Awesome. We love you guys. Go out, be your best self today and as always happy nursing.
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