Nursing Assessment for Pleural Effusion - Pattern Function

Assessment Pattern Function

1. Patterns of perception and management of healthy living
  • Presence of medical and hospital care influencing changes in perceptions about health, but it sometimes led to wrong perceptions towards health maintenance.
  • The possibility of a history of smoking, drinking alcohol and use of narcotic drugs predispose the occurrence of disease.

2. Patterns of nutrition and metabolism
  • In the assessment of nutritional and metabolic pattern, we need to take measurements of height and weight to determine the patient's nutritional status.
  • Need to ask, eating and drinking habits before and during the hospital, patients with pleural effusion will experience a decrease in appetite as a result of shortness of breath and an emphasis on abdominal structures.
  • Increased metabolism will occur due to the disease process, patients with pleural effusi generally weak state.

3. Pattern of elimination
  • In the assessment of the pattern of elimination need to be asked about bowel habits before and after in hospital.
  • Because the patient's general condition is weak, the patient will be more bed rest so that it will cause constipation, but due to digestion in the structure causes a decrease in peristaltic abdominal muscles degestivus tractus.

4. Patterns of activity and exercise
  • Due to shortness of breath, tissue oxygen demand will be less satisfied.
  • Patients will quickly experience fatigue on a minimal activity.
  • In addition, patients will also reduce its activity due to chest pain.
  • To meet the needs of its most ADL assisted the patient needs by nurses and their families.

5. Pattern of sleep and rest
  • Presence of chest pain, shortness of breath and increased body temperature will affect the fulfillment of sleep and rest.
  • In addition, due to changes in environmental conditions of a quiet home environment into the hospital environment, where many people are paced, noisy and so forth.

6. Pattern of relationships and roles
  • As a result of illness, direct the patient will experience a change in role, eg a housewife patient, the patient can not perform its function as a mother who must care for their children, taking care of her husband.
  • In addition, the patient's role in society is also changing and it affects the patient's interpersonal relationships.

7. Patterns of perception and self-concept
  • Perceptions of patients to self-change.
  • Patients who had been healthy, suddenly experienced pain, shortness of breath, chest pain.
  • Patients may be assumed that the disease is dangerous and deadly disease.
  • In this case the patient might lose the positive image of himself.

8. Pattern of sensory and cognitive
  • The patient does not experience sensory changes, so does the thinking process.

8. Patterns of sexual reproduction
  • Sexual needs of patients in this case sexual intercourse would be disturbed for a while because the patient was in hospital and his physical condition is still weak.

9. Pattern of stress coping
  • For patients who do not know the disease process would be distressed and may be a lot of patients ask nurses and doctors or people who may be considered to know more about the illness.

10. Pattern of values ​​and beliefs
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