Essay On Nursing Care Plan

The purpose of this paper is to provide a nursing care plan for a geriatric client of a long-term care facility. This paper will discuss assessment of the client’s current health status. While her mental and social well-being are addressed, the most in-depth assessment of this client concerns her physical health. Nursing diagnoses will follow, based on the information collected during assessment. Then expected outcomes will be planned for the client, ideally resulting in improvement of her health status in various areas. This paper will then transition to theoretical implementation of nursing interventions, including any necessary teaching. While these nursing interventions will not be formally implemented, methods for evaluating the conjectured effectiveness of the interventions will be discussed.

Background Information

This nursing care plan is based on “Mrs. LaFrance” (not her real name), who is a resident of Life Care Center, a long-term care facility in Sierra Vista, Arizona. She is an English-speaking 89-year-old Caucasian female, born and raised in the Midwest to a father with German roots and a mother who immigrated from Sweden as a

She wears glasses to correct her vision, but does not appear to suffer from poor corrected eyesight. She has a lapboard in her room on which she is assembling an intricate puzzle, with small pieces and a challenging Impressionist-style image. Her pupils are equal, round, react to light, and display accommodation (PERRLA). During the first assessment, her “corrected” hearing appeared fairly good, having little trouble understanding the normal-volume discussion. She had a bit more trouble hearing during the second assessment, asking for things to be repeated several times. Her ears appear symmetric and normal, with no discharge or anything else of note. Her speech is clear. Her oral mucous membranes are pink and moist, and lymph nodes did not appear to be swollen (they were not