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Nurse's Pocket Guide

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impaired verbal COMMUNICATION<br />

• Support client/SO access to resources (e.g., knowledge and<br />

skills; financial resources/assistance; personal/psychological<br />

support; social systems.)<br />

Documentation Focus<br />

ASSESSMENT/REASSESSMENT<br />

• Individual findings, including client’s description of current<br />

status/situation.<br />

• Motivation and expectations for change.<br />

• Medication use/nonpharmacological measures.<br />

PLANNING<br />

• Plan of care/interventions and who is involved in planning.<br />

• Teaching plan.<br />

IMPLEMENTATION/EVALUATION<br />

• Responses to interventions/teaching and actions performed.<br />

• Attainment/progress toward desired outcome(s).<br />

• Modifications to plan of care.<br />

DISCHARGE PLANNING<br />

• Long-term needs and who is responsible for actions to be taken.<br />

• Specific referrals made.<br />

SAMPLE NURSING OUTCOMES & INTERVENTIONS<br />

CLASSIFICATIONS (NOC/NIC)<br />

NOC—Comfort Level<br />

NIC—Self-Modification Assistance<br />

impaired verbal Communication<br />

Taxonomy II: Perception/Cognition—Class 5<br />

Communication (00051)<br />

[Diagnostic Division: Social Interaction]<br />

Submitted 1983; Revised 1998 (by small group work 1996)<br />

Definition: Decreased, delayed, or absent ability to receive,<br />

process, transmit, and/or use a system of symbols<br />

Related Factors<br />

Decrease in circulation to brain; brain tumor<br />

Information in brackets added by the authors to clarify and enhance<br />

the use of nursing diagnoses.<br />

166 Cultural Collaborative Community/Home Care

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