My nursing care plan.

Alas, the nursing student in me has surfaced and I did not have time to write an entry yesterday. My life has been consumed by data sheets, med profiles, and care plans for the last two nights, and I can honestly say I may lose my mind soon. To ensure that temporary (or prolongued) insanity does not occur, I have developed a nursing care plan for myself. Here it goes.

Assessment: Patient is presenting with restlessness and hostility. She reports a rapid increase in food consumption and the feeling that her personal life has been "literally sucked out of her".

Diagnosis: deficient diversional activity r/t nursing coursework aeb feelings of restlessness and hostility and report of overeating

Goal: The patient will participate in one extracurricular activity that does not involve a textbook, a stethoscope, or the Nurse's Pocket Guide to Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales aeb patient reporting a decreased feeling of insanity by 09/05/10.

Interventions: Provide for periodic changes in the personal environment. Rationale: Sitting in one spot for too long will cause the client to do self-destructive things with her bandage scissors. Suggest activities such as bird baths for bird watching, a garden window box, or a fish bowl. Rationale: to stimulate observation and involvement in activity.

Evaluation: 09/02/10 Evaluation is ongoing.

Would you look at that? I'm already following through with my nursing interventions.