Nursing Diagnosis for Osteoarthritis : Activity Intolerance related to changes in muscle.
Outcomes :
Clients are able to participate in the desired activity.
Interventions :
- Maintain bed rest / sit down if necessary.
- Help move with minimal assistance.
- Encourage clients maintain an upright posture, sitting height, standing and walking.
- Provide a safe environment and recommends to use a walker.
- Give as indicated drugs such as steroids.
- To prevent fatigue and maintains strength.
- Improve joint function, muscle strength and general stamina.
- Maximizing the function of joints and maintain mobility.
- Avoiding injuries caused by accidents such as falls.
- To suppress acute systemic inflammation.
Nursing Diagnosis for Osteoarthritis : Risk for Injury related to decrease in bone function.
Outcomes :
Clients can maintain physical safety.
Interventions :
- Control of the patient's environment : Getting rid of the obvious dangers, reducing potential injury from falling while sleeping for example using a buffer bed, try to position the lower bed, night lighting ready to use call lights.
- Allow maximum independence and freedom to provide freedom in a safe environment, avoid the use of restrain, when patients daydreaming distract rather than startled.
Rationale :
- Hazard-free environment that will reduce the risk of injury and relieve families of the constant concerns.
- This will give the patient autonomy, can restrain the increase of agitation, if the shock will increase anxiety.
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