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Nursing Care Plan for UTI

This nursing care plan is for an 84-year-old female patient diagnosed with a urinary tract infection. The plan aims to promote good hygiene and physical comfort by having the patient achieve normal urinary elimination patterns within 8 hours and demonstrate behaviors to prevent future infections. Interventions include assessing the patient's elimination every 4 hours, encouraging fluid intake, voiding every 2-3 hours, and giving antibiotics as prescribed. The plan seeks to address the infection and help the patient regain normal urinary function through various independent, collaborative, and dependent interventions.

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Nursing Care Plan for UTI

This nursing care plan is for an 84-year-old female patient diagnosed with a urinary tract infection. The plan aims to promote good hygiene and physical comfort by having the patient achieve normal urinary elimination patterns within 8 hours and demonstrate behaviors to prevent future infections. Interventions include assessing the patient's elimination every 4 hours, encouraging fluid intake, voiding every 2-3 hours, and giving antibiotics as prescribed. The plan seeks to address the infection and help the patient regain normal urinary function through various independent, collaborative, and dependent interventions.

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GENERAL SANTOS DOCTORS’ MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC.

NURSING CARE PLAN

Client: Mrs. P Gender: Female


Age: 84 Years Old Diagnosis: Urinary Tract Infection
NCP BY: NAVIDAS, FRANCOIS LANCE C. SN Attending Physician:
ASSESSMEN DIAGNOSIS OBJECTIVES NURSING RATIONALE EVALUATION
T INTERVENTIONS
Subjective Impaired Urinary General Independent:
cues: elimination related to Objecive: - Assess pattern of - Serve as a basis for -After 8 hours
Urinary Tract Infection. To promote Elimination determining of nursing
Interference: good hygiene appropriate intervention,
Objective - Urinary tract infections and physical -Note client’s age interventions. Goal met.
cues: (UTI) are caused by comfort. and gender. -UTIs are more - The patient
-Restlessness pathogenic prevalent in women will be able to
-Urinary microorganisms in the Short term: -Palpate the client’s and older men. achieve the
incontinence urinary tract - After 8 hours bladder every 4 -To determine the normal urinary
-Urinary (kidney, bladder, of nursing hours. presence of urinary elimination
retention urethra). The majority of intervention retention. pattern.
-Dysuria UTIs are caused by the the patient -Demonstrate
-Oliguria bacterium Escherichia will: the
-VS taken as: coli (E. coli), normally behavioural
T=37.9 found in the digestive -Achieve techniques to
(Febrile) system. Usually, bacteria normal Collaborative: prevent urinary
P=122 that enter the urinary urinary -Encourage -To help improve infection.
Bpm tract system are removed elimination increased fluid renal blood flow.
(tachypneic) by the body before they pattern. intake (3-4 liters a
RR=24 cpm can cause symptoms. day if tolerated). -To prevent the
BP=92/58 But, in some cases, -Demonstrate accumulation of
(Hypotensive) bacteria overcomes the behavioural -Encourage the urine thus limiting the
natural defenses of the techniques to client to void every number of bacteria.
body, therefore prevent 2-3 hours.
causes infection. urinary
Infection in the urethra is infection. -Instruct the female
called urethritis. A client to wipe the -Proper perineal care
bladder infection is area from front to helps in minimizing
called cystitis. Bacteria back and the the risk of
may ascend up to the avoidance of bath contamination and
ureters to multiply and tubs. re-infection.
cause the infection of the Dependent:
kidneys (pyelonephritis). Give antibiotics as
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