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Impaired Gas Exchange is the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis for an excess or deficit in oxygenation and/or carbon dioxide elimination at the alveolar-capillary membrane. You see it as low oxygen (hypoxemia), high carbon dioxide (hypercapnia), or both: a falling SpO2, abnormal arterial blood gases, restlessness or confusion, fast breathing, and a fast heart rate. Common causes … See Nursing Diagnoses
Readiness for discharge is the nurse’s judgment that a client is physically stable, knows how to manage care at home, feels able to cope, and has the support and services needed to leave the hospital safely. There is no NANDA-I diagnosis called “readiness for discharge” or “readiness for enhanced discharge”; when a client is ready … See Nursing Diagnoses
Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that spreads through the air and most often affects the lungs. Many people carry it as latent TB infection, which causes no symptoms and is not contagious; active TB disease causes cough, fever, night sweats, and weight loss and can spread to others. The nursing … See Nursing Diagnoses
Oligohydramnios is too little amniotic fluid for the stage of pregnancy, usually defined on ultrasound as a deepest vertical pocket under 2 cm or an amniotic fluid index (AFI) of 5 cm or less. The most common causes are ruptured membranes, placental insufficiency, a pregnancy past its due date, and fetal kidney or urinary tract … See Nursing Diagnoses
Polyhydramnios is too much amniotic fluid around the fetus, diagnosed on ultrasound after 20 weeks when the amniotic fluid index (AFI) is 24 cm or more or the deepest vertical pocket is 8 cm or more. Most mild cases have no known cause, but diabetes, fetal anomalies that affect swallowing, multiple pregnancy, and fetal anemia … See Nursing Diagnoses