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Nursing Care Plan for Anxiety

This nursing care plan outlines the assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, interventions, and evaluation for a patient named Ayesha experiencing acute anxiety related to her hospitalization. The nursing diagnosis is acute anxiety related to hospitalization as evidenced by restlessness, excess crying, disordered thoughts, and tachycardia. The short-term goal is for the patient to be free from anxious feelings of self-inflicted harm through hospitalization after 6 hours of nursing intervention. The long-term goal is for the patient to demonstrate functional psychomotor activity and interest in daily life until discharge. Planned interventions include maintaining a calm manner, establishing a trusting relationship, encouraging relaxation exercises, and providing reassurance. The rationales provided

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Nursing Care Plan for Anxiety

This nursing care plan outlines the assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, interventions, and evaluation for a patient named Ayesha experiencing acute anxiety related to her hospitalization. The nursing diagnosis is acute anxiety related to hospitalization as evidenced by restlessness, excess crying, disordered thoughts, and tachycardia. The short-term goal is for the patient to be free from anxious feelings of self-inflicted harm through hospitalization after 6 hours of nursing intervention. The long-term goal is for the patient to demonstrate functional psychomotor activity and interest in daily life until discharge. Planned interventions include maintaining a calm manner, establishing a trusting relationship, encouraging relaxation exercises, and providing reassurance. The rationales provided

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Nursing Care Plan on Anxiety

Assessment Nursing Diagnose Planning Intervention Rational Evaluation


 SUBJECTIVE DATA    Maintain a calm, non-  Anxiety is contagious  Goal met after 6 hours of
 Acute anxiety related to threatening manner while and may be nursing intervention patient
Short Term Goal
Ayesha’s mother hospitalization as evidence anxious feelings regarding
verbalized that after by restlessness and excess
working with the client. transferred from hospitalization subsided.
Patient will Be free
hospitalization she cry health care provider to
from anxious feelings
stopped to talk ,to eat even client or vice versa.
of self-inflicted harm
she is not interested in Client develops
playing .now she easily through about
feeling of security in
get agitated and start cry hospitalization after 6
presence of calm staff
without any reason. hours of nursing
Establish and maintain a person.
OJECTIVE DATA intervention
trusting relationship by
• restlessness Long Term Goal listening to the client; Therapeutic skills
Excess cry displaying warmth, need to be directed
• Disordered thoughts Till discharge patient will
answering questions directly, toward putting the
and tachycardia Demonstrate functional
offering unconditional client at ease, because
• Fear of injection level of psychomotor
acceptance; being available the nurse who is a
• Anhedonia (inability to activity and interst in
and respecting the client’s stranger may pose a
experience pleasure) daily life.
use of personal space. threat to the highly
• lack of interest and anxious client.
poor eye contact Maintain calmness in your
• Generalized approach to the client. The client will feel
restlessness or agitation more secure if you are
• Sleep disturbances: calm and inf the client
early awakening, Encourage the client’s feels you are in
insomnia, or excessive participation in relaxation control of the
sleeping exercises such as deep situation.
• Fear of intensity of breathing, Relaxation exercises
feelings progressive muscle relaxatio are effective
• Anxiety n, guided imagery, nonchemical ways to
meditation and so forth. reduce anxiety. Helps

Provide reassurance and


comfort measures.

Positive reframing relieve anxiety.

Turning negative
messages into positive
ones.

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