nursing care plan for acute respiratory problem?
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Ineffective airway clearance, evidenced by rales,/rhonchi. Interventions can included airway suction, percussion and postural drainage, breathing treatments to stimulate cough.\n\nIneffective gas exchange, evidenced by increased resp rate, and decreased oxygen saturation. Interventions can include cough and deep breathe to open airways, use of the incentive spirometer, supplemental oxygen. \n \nThese are just off the top of my head, but I hope they help.
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I was having congestion problems really bad, runny nose, weak, hard to breathe, and it was the week before Christmas.  I knew if I waited to see if I would get better I would be in trouble, because most of the family doctors would be on vacation.  Ha, they all were anyway.  And I ended up at an emergency clinic.\n\nI didn't know it, but I had pneumonia.  I'm asthmatic, anyway, and know how to breathe when my lungs tighten.  So I was reading, waiting for my turn, and suddenly I realized I couldn't breathe at all.  Not an asthmatic attack, just no air coming in.\n\nI walked up to the receptionist.  I told her I couldn't breathe, passed out, and on the way down I heard some jerk on the list before me with a twisted ankle belly aching, "What some people won't try to get ahead of someone else."\n\nThe receptionist just stood there, a nurse came out to see what caused the commotion, ran and came back with a doctor.  He straightened me on the floor and the nurse came back with an oxygen tube.  The receptionist was still standing there, holding her PEOPLE magazine, and the doctor screamed at her to call an ambulance, they didn't have the equipment to save me.  And she stood there.  He told her again to call an ambulance, and she walked away toward the phone, no urgency at all, and it was then, when I was angry with her, that I realized I was watching all this from outside my body.  I was standing at my own head watching the doctor trying to resuscitate me and the nurse was very urgent, and starting to cry.\n\nThen I was sucked into this blue light.  I couldn't see anything anymore, but I could hear voices.  Someone I understood to be my guardian said I was in holding, that I could either go with him, or go back.  I figured I was already dead, anyway, and thought I would just go, but he asked me what would happen to my dog if I went.\n\nI didn't live with my parents, I rented a house.  But even though Trinket was in my will and I had a guardian for her, my parents had told me if anything happened to me, she was going to the pound, that they wouldn't even take her to a humane society.  I had rescued Trinket from a shelter's death row, she was a senior canine, and the thought of her going in the animal control truck to be killed, and her knowing where she was going when she was within earshot of the pound was enough to bring me back into my body.\n\nI still couldn't breathe, but now I fought for the oxygen, and I finally managed a sip from the tube.  I was seeing the doctor from my own eyes again.\n\nHe later told me I was his Christmas miracle, that my skin had turned bluer than my eyes, that if my heart hadn't been strong, I would have died.
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Try calling the non-emergency hospital line and talking to a nurse or doctor about your symptoms. I do this whenever Something feels wrong and i can usually avoid a doctor visit by doing so.
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no cough medicene, need decadron (some steroids presription) cool air... when really bad put face directly in a cool air humidifires path and breath deeply... if does not help got to er, they can give iv steroids and give racemic epinephrine breathing treatments.\ncroup is almost always viral.. you have to let it run its coarse
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You need to contact the Board of Nursing for that area and ask them for there website (most places have this information available on line now) or have them send you a copy. You may have to pay postage.
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Have a rennie, or a strong tasting cough sweet (or something aniseed).\nSip some water\nlearn to do some breathing exercises.\nRead the Allen Carr Easyway book it works.
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Cough and Deep Breathe.
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Talk to the doctor's office. Whoever diagnosed and is treating your loved one has access to all you need to know...look in the Sunday paper in the family section or call any BIG hospital they also have info or call any hospital referral number...there are nurse agencies in the phone book. You will probably need help from the doctor's office to wade thru all the paperwork so this gets paid for...good luck.
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Hello\n\n Boy that's a difficult question and one I am also going through right now with my mother.  I don't think anyone is going to be able to answer this for you and your family, you all know your mom the best.  I can only tell you what we have done.  My mother knows she has lung and heart problems but she really doesn't understand the severity of the problems.  The last time she was hospitalized she had to be put on life support, and the doctors told us she has about 6 months. She is terrified of doctors and hospitals and worries about dying.  She's been really sick for years now.  As a family we decided not to tell her what the doctors said because she gets so scared and we want her to get the most out of the time she has left without being scared and worring all the time.  So only your family knows enough about how your mother to make this decision.  Is she the kind of person who would want to get her affairs in order or would it only add to her suffering.  I hope this helps some. Good luck and God bless.
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Do you have a specific model? Or is it just an overview? Check out books by Roper, Logan and Tierney, they're quite good. Also book " Best nursing practice" i can't remember author but she gives a very good demonstration of care planning, implementation and evaluation. I bought it but i don't have it at the moment (Only partly moved into new home)\n\nNMC should be able to help you (Check out their literature for nurses, starting with the Code Of Practice, then ask RCN because they  can provide information. If you go to nursing standard online (You'll need to register but it's free) and enter what you wriote in your question, their search engine will come back with lots of articles you will find sueful for your essay.\n\nGood luck!
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Hey, first of all you should know that guillain- Barré syndrome has many presentations and different clinical forms, all which have a different prognosis. The fact that your mother had to be put on the respirator in the ICU means she had a severe type of this syndrome. Plasmapheresis is an adequate treatment and she seems to be making progress but still it could be a few more weeks before she doesn't need the respiratory support.You should ask the specific questions you are posting to your mother's doctor as he knows the case, still he might not be able to answer everything you want to know. You have to be patient!! i hope your mom recovers soon!
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The American Hospital Association can probably help you. See http://www.aha.org/aha/index.jsp
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Try to breathe slowly and deeply and call NHS Direct 0845 4647. Its best to get professional advice to prevent you from worrying all night. Take care, and i hope you are feeling better soon.
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try like a primacare or something like that\none of those emergency but not an emergency enough to go to the hospital places
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a woman with nasty cough/cigarette breath
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it depends on what they think you have...if you have a bad cough they would order a chest x-ray...for a sore throat they might order a CBC (complete blood count) it all depends on why you are there...and the state of your emergency...
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Registered Nurse here; This is an unusual question, and I'm sorry you have not been treated with dignity and respect in the health care system.  I would start by going to the Emergency Room now, you shared little of actual symptoms, however it is apparent by your question your desperate and no one is listening. Please go to your nearest emergency room, share with them this very question you've posted here on Yahoo.  Ask them to please help you.  There will be a physician for whatever your special need is, on call.  If the E.R. Doctor feels your situation needs immediate attention, he will call this on call Doctor and he will come out and admit you to the hospital.  Try to calm down a bit, concentrate on your needs, you can deal with the uncaring physician after your taken care of.\nThanks for the opportunity to address this question.