Nursing Care Plan for Meningitis

Nursing Assessment Nursing Diagnosis and Nursing Intervention for Meningitis

(1) Activities

Symptoms: feeling bad (malaise).
Signs: ataxia, paralysis, involuntary movement.

(2) Circulation

Symptoms: A history of cardiac pathology: endocarditis and CHD.
Signs: increased blood pressure, decreased pulse, weight and pulse pressure, tachycardia, dysrhythmias.

(3) Elimination

Signs: incontinence or retention.

(4) Food / liquid

Symptoms: Loss of appetite, difficulty swallowing.
Signs: anorexia, vomiting, poor skin turgor and dry mucous membranes.

(5) Hygiene

Signs: Dependence on all self-care needs.

(6) Neuro Sensory

Symptoms: Headache, paresthesias, numb in neural affected, loss of sensation, hyperalgesia, seizures, diplopia, photophobia, deafness and olfactory hallucinations.
Signs: lethargy to severe confusion to coma, delusions and hallucinations, memory loss, aphasia, anisokor, nystagmus, ptosis, generalized seizures / local, hemiparese, brudzinki sign or positive and positive Kernig, nuchal rigidity, positive Babinski, decreased reflexes and abdominal reflexes kremastetik loss in men.

(7) Pain / security

Symptoms: headache (throbbing, frontal).
Signs: restlessness, crying.

(8) Respiratory

Symptoms: a history of sinus or lung infection.
Signs: increased work of breathing.

Nursing Diagnosis and Nursing Intervention for Meningitis

Sensory Perception Disturbance related to neurological deficits

• Monitor changes in orientation, kemamapuan speak, the natural feelings, sensory and thought processes.
• Assess awareness of sensory: touch, heat, cold.
• Observations of behavioral response.
• Eliminate excessive noise.
• Validate the patient's perception and give feedback.
• Give the opportunity to communicate and move.
• Collaboration physiotherapists, occupational therapy, speech and cognitive.

Impaired Physical Mobility related to neuromuscular damage

• Assess the degree of immobilization of the patient.
• Assistive range of motion exercises.
• Give your skin care, massage with moisturizer.
• Check the area experiencing tenderness, give air mattresses or water body alignment are functionally notice.
• Provide training programs and the use of mobilization.