Documentation Assignments
1. Document your focused gastrointestinal and dietary assessment of Christopher Parrish.
- Assess vitals
- Assess bowel sounds, ask about last BM
- Measure NG tube to assure placement
- Asp
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Documentation Assignments
1. Document your focused gastrointestinal and dietary assessment of Christopher Parrish.
- Assess vitals
- Assess bowel sounds, ask about last BM
- Measure NG tube to assure placement
- Aspirate and flush NG tube
- Check orders for nutrition order
- Compare fluid nutrient to MAR
- Administer fluid nutrient as ordered
- Educated about I/O, BMI, Ng tubes, aspiration
2. Document two nursing diagnoses for this patient. Impaired nutrition
Knowledge deficit
3. Document your priorities for care of this patient. Establish a trusting relationship
Educate about nutrition, disease process, BMI, how to maintain a healthy weight
4. Describe the age-related considerations you will use when caring for Christopher Parrish. Establishing independence is important at this age so I will allow for chris to participate and do as much as he possiably can, as well as allowing for him to explain to me what he knows before reinforcing education.
5. Referring to your feedback log, document the nursing care, including patient education about nutritional needs and therapy, which you provided to Christopher Parrish. Include his response.
- Washed hands
- Introduced self
- ID patient
- Asked allergied responded with none
- Assisted to high fowlers
- Listeded to bowel sounds
- Checked NG placement
- Asked about pain responded none
- Educated about BMI, diet, I/O, risk of aspiration, tube feeding
- Administered 5 tablets of pancrelipase
- Administered tube feeding
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