Question

PN 105 Fundamentals of Nursing I Concept Map: Tuberculosis Miss Alba Calabash, a 43-year-old woman has applied for a position at the local high school to work in the cafeteria. She is returning to the work force after having raised 4 children who are currently in college or not living at home. She has been told to have a pre-employment physical which includes a TB test. She returns to her family physician in 48 hours to have the results of the PPD read; it is 13mm diameter meaning it is positive. Her physician places her on medication prophylactically. She questions what about the health of her children and husband; the physician explains there will be tollow up testing done for her family. She will also be questioned about the names of people she has had contact with recently. Mrs. Calabash becomes very upset stating she has made her family sick and on top of that her friends will not want to associate with her because she has made them ill Now please go your concept map

Answer 1

#. Concept Care Mapping

Innovative approach for planning & organizing nursing care

#. Concept Care Mapping is used to

- Organize pt. data

- Analyze relationships in the data

- Establish priorities

- Build on prior knowledge

- Figure out what you don't understand

- Take a holistic view of the patient's situation

#. Steps to concept mapping are :-

Step 1: Development of Basic Skeleton Diagram

In this case assessing the patient's health history , demographic data social economic status , lab reports etc

Step 2: Analysis & Categorization of Data

In this after collection of data , analysing it and putting it different categories

Step 3: Labeling, Prioritizing, & Analyzing Nursing Diagnoses Relationships

According to the need of the patient prioritizing the needs and planning implementation needed .

Preparing the nursing diagnosis like - Anxiety related to the diagnosis

Step 4: Identification of goals, outcomes, & intervention

Preparing g objectives and goals for the patient care based on needs . Like reducing the anxiety related to diagnosis

Step 5: Evaluation of patient's responses

In this case ,after implementation of the care , evaluating the response , are the goals achieved or not etc