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Nursing Care Plan Acute Pain

The nursing care plan assesses a patient who had surgery and is experiencing acute pain related to the surgical incision, as verbalized by the patient. The plan is to monitor vital signs, support the surgical area with pillows, instruct the patient on diversional activities and avoiding strenuous activities, and administer pain medications, with the goal of reducing the patient's pain level from 6/10 to 2/10 within 15-20 minutes.

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Nursing Care Plan Acute Pain

The nursing care plan assesses a patient who had surgery and is experiencing acute pain related to the surgical incision, as verbalized by the patient. The plan is to monitor vital signs, support the surgical area with pillows, instruct the patient on diversional activities and avoiding strenuous activities, and administer pain medications, with the goal of reducing the patient's pain level from 6/10 to 2/10 within 15-20 minutes.

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NURSING CARE PLAN

ASSESSMENT

DIAGNOSIS

PLANNING

Subjective

Acute pain

After 15-20

Data:

related to

minutes of

surgical incision

nursing

Nagsakit datoy
naopera
kanyak, as
verbalized by
the patient.
Objective Data:
>facial
grimacing
>Guarding
behavior

INTERVENTION

>Monitor vital
signs.

intervention
patient will be
able to verbalize
relief of pain
and with a pain
scale from 6/10
to 2/10 scale

RATIONALE

>Monitoring
vital signs will
serve as
baseline data.

>Support area
with extra pillow

>To prevent
straining.

> Instruct client


to use
diversional
activities.

>To divert
patients focus
on pain.

>Instruct client
to avoid
strenuous
activities.
>Administer
pain
medications.

> To prevent
bleeding or
reopening of the
surgical incision

> To relieve
patient from
pain

EVALUATION
Goal met, after
15-20 minutes
of nursing
intervention, the
patient will be
able to verbalize
relief of pain
and with pain
scale reduced
from 6/10 to
2/10

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