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    Student Nurses' Community Nursing Care Plan

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    The patient is experiencing blurred and cloudy vision due to increased intraocular pressure from glaucoma. The nurse will intervene to maintain the patient's current visual field and acuity without further loss over 8 hours. Interventions include ascertaining the degree of visual loss, recommending measures to assist with visual limitations, and assisting with glaucoma medications to lower intraocular pressure and prevent further vision loss.

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    Student Nurses' Community Nursing Care Plan

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    The patient is experiencing blurred and cloudy vision due to increased intraocular pressure from glaucoma. The nurse will intervene to maintain the patient's current visual field and acuity without further loss over 8 hours. Interventions include ascertaining the degree of visual loss, recommending measures to assist with visual limitations, and assisting with glaucoma medications to lower intraocular pressure and prevent further vision loss.

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    The patient is experiencing blurred and cloudy vision due to increased intraocular pressure from glaucoma. The nurse will intervene to maintain the patient's current visual field and acuity without further loss over 8 hours. Interventions include ascertaining the degree of visual loss, recommending measures to assist with visual limitations, and assisting with glaucoma medications to lower intraocular pressure and prevent further vision loss.

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    Student Nurses' Community Nursing Care Plan

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    The patient is experiencing blurred and cloudy vision due to increased intraocular pressure from glaucoma. The nurse will intervene to maintain the patient's current visual field and acuity without further loss over 8 hours. Interventions include ascertaining the degree of visual loss, recommending measures to assist with visual limitations, and assisting with glaucoma medications to lower intraocular pressure and prevent further vision loss.

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    Student Nurses’ Community

    ,NURSING CARE PLAN - Glaucoma


    ASSESSMENT DIAGNOSIS INFERENCE PLANNING INTERVENTION RATIONALE EVALUATION
    SUBJECTIVE: Disturbed Increased After 8 hours of Independent Goal met, patient
    visual intraocular nursing has
    “Masakit ang mata Sensory pressure intervention the • Ascertain • Affects maintained
    ko at napansin ko Perception r/t patient will type/degree of choice of current visual
    na lumabo at Altered inadequate visual loss interventions field/acuity
    ngkaron ng parang sensory drainage of • Participate in and patient’s without further
    ulap ang paningin reception aqueous humor therapeutic future loss.
    ko” (I am having from the regimen. expectations
    pain around my anterior
    eye and I also chamber of the • Maintain
    noticed that my eye current visual
    vision is getting field/acuity • Encourage • Although
    blurred and cloudy) atrophy of the without expression of early
    as verbalized by optic nerve further loss. feelings about intervention
    the patient loss/possibility can prevent
    Disturbed of loss of vision blindness,
    visual Sensory patient faces
    the possibility
    OBJECTIVE: or may have
    already
    • Cloudy experienced
    pupils partial or
    • Sudden/persistent complete
    severe pain or loss of vision.
    pressure in and Although
    around eye(s) vision loss
    • Headache cannot be
    • V/S taken as restored
    follows (even with
    treatment),
    T: 37 ˚C further loss
    P: 80 can be
    R: 18 prevented
    Student Nurses’ Community

    BP: 110/ 80 • Recommend • Reduces


    measures to safety
    assist patient to hazards
    manage visual related to
    limitations, e.g., changes in
    reducing clutter, visual
    arranging fields/loss of
    furniture out of vision and
    travel path; papillary
    turning head to accommodati
    view subjects; on to
    correcting for environment
    dim light and al light
    problems of
    night vision

    Collaborative

    Assist with
    administration of
    medications as
    indicated:

    • Pilocarpine • These direct-


    hydrochloride acting topical
    myotic drugs
    cause
    pupillary
    constriction,
    facilitating
    the outflow of
    aqueous
    humor and
    lowering IOP
    Student Nurses’ Community

    • Timolol maleate
    • Beta]-
    blockers
    decrease
    formation of
    aqueous
    humor
    without
    changing
    pupil size,
    vision, or
    accommodati
    on

    • Acetazolamide
    • Carbonic
    anhydrase
    inhibitors
    decrease the
    rate of
    production of
    aqueous
    humor

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