This nursing care plan addresses a patient experiencing anxiety as evidenced by a fear of not being able to breathe. The diagnosis is risk for anxiety. Short term goals are for the patient to return blood pressure to normal range and show improved coping within 4 hours. Interventions include comfort measures, staying with the patient, and providing a calm environment. Long term goals are for reduced anxiety and improved coping after a month. Interventions include relaxation techniques and acknowledging normalcy of feelings. The goals were met.
This nursing care plan addresses a patient experiencing anxiety as evidenced by a fear of not being able to breathe. The diagnosis is risk for anxiety. Short term goals are for the patient to return blood pressure to normal range and show improved coping within 4 hours. Interventions include comfort measures, staying with the patient, and providing a calm environment. Long term goals are for reduced anxiety and improved coping after a month. Interventions include relaxation techniques and acknowledging normalcy of feelings. The goals were met.
This nursing care plan addresses a patient experiencing anxiety as evidenced by a fear of not being able to breathe. The diagnosis is risk for anxiety. Short term goals are for the patient to return blood pressure to normal range and show improved coping within 4 hours. Interventions include comfort measures, staying with the patient, and providing a calm environment. Long term goals are for reduced anxiety and improved coping after a month. Interventions include relaxation techniques and acknowledging normalcy of feelings. The goals were met.
This nursing care plan addresses a patient experiencing anxiety as evidenced by a fear of not being able to breathe. The diagnosis is risk for anxiety. Short term goals are for the patient to return blood pressure to normal range and show improved coping within 4 hours. Interventions include comfort measures, staying with the patient, and providing a calm environment. Long term goals are for reduced anxiety and improved coping after a month. Interventions include relaxation techniques and acknowledging normalcy of feelings. The goals were met.
Subjective: Risks for anxiety as - Anxiety is a Short-Term Goals: - Provide comfort - Aids in meeting Short-Term Goals: evidenced by fear. vague, uneasy After 4 hours of measures (e.g., basic human need, After 4 hours of - “I fear that one feeling of nursing intervention, calm or quiet decreasing sense of nursing day when I wake discomfort or dread the patient will be environment, soft isolation, and intervention, the up, I wouldn’t be accompanied by an able to return blood music, warm bath, assisting client to patient will be able able to breathe.” as autonomic response; pressure within back rub, feel less anxious. to return blood stated by the a feeling of normal range and Therapeutic Touch). - To lessen the pressure within patient. apprehension show signs of - Stay with the effect of normal range and caused by improved coping client, maintaining transmission of show signs of anticipation of ability as evidenced a calm, confident feelings. improved coping danger. It is an by: manner. ability as evidenced alerting sign that - Provide a non- -This is indicative by: warns of impeding - Recognizing threatening, of extent of anxiety danger and enables ineffective coping consistent or fear related to - Recognizing Objective: the individual to strategies environment/atmos what is happening ineffective coping take measures to - Verbalization of phere. Minimize and need for strategies deal with that threat. ability to cope and stimuli. Monitor specific - Verbalization of - T: 36.4°C asks for help when visitors and interventions to ability to cope and needed interactions. reduce asks for help when - PR: 110 bpm - Fear is the physiological needed response to Long-Term Goals: reactions. - RR: 31 bpm perceived threat that After a month of - Note ability to - This promotes an GOAL MET is consciously nursing intervention, concentrate, level of attitude of caring - BP: 130/90 mmHg recognized as a the patient will be attention, degree of and opens the door Long-Term Goals: danger. able to show signs incapacitation. for discussion about After a month of of improved coping - Acknowledge feelings and / or nursing ability as evidenced normalcy of fear, addressing reality of intervention, the by: pain, and despair, situation. patient will be able and give -This promotes the to show signs of SUBMITTED BY: SUBMITTED TO: PAGE 1 - Anxiety is reduced "permission" to release of improved coping to a manageable express feelings endorphins and aids ability as evidenced level appropriately and in developing an by: freely. internal locus - Assist client to control, reducing - Anxiety is reduced learn relaxation, fear and anxiety. to a manageable visualization, and This may enhance level guided imagery coping skills, skills. allowing the body to GOAL MET go about its work of healing.