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Nurse's Pocket Guide

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WANDERING<br />

• Register client with community/national resources, such as<br />

Alzheimer’s Association Safe Return Program, to assist in<br />

identification, location, and safe return of individual with<br />

wandering behaviors.<br />

• Help SO(s) develop plan of care when problem is progressive.<br />

• Refer to community resources, such as day care programs,<br />

support groups.<br />

• Refer to NDs acute Confusion; chronic Confusion; impaired<br />

Environmental Interpretation Syndrome; disturbed Sensory<br />

Perception (specify); risk for Injury; risk for Falls.<br />

Documentation Focus<br />

ASSESSMENT/REASSESSMENT<br />

• Assessment findings, including individual concerns, family<br />

involvement, and support factors/availability of resources.<br />

PLANNING<br />

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

• Teaching plan.<br />

IMPLEMENTATION/EVALUATION<br />

• Responses of client/SO(s) to plan interventions and actions<br />

performed.<br />

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

• Modifications to plan of care.<br />

DISCHARGE PLANNING<br />

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

taken.<br />

• Specific referrals made.<br />

SAMPLE NURSING OUTCOMES & INTERVENTIONS<br />

CLASSIFICATIONS (NOC/NIC)<br />

NOC—Risk Control<br />

NIC—Elopement Precautions<br />

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

the use of nursing diagnoses.<br />

780 Cultural Collaborative Community/Home Care

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