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Knowledge Deficit

Related to

• Lack of information/unfamiliarity with information resources
• Information misinterpretation
• Lack of recall/cognitive limitation

Outcomes

• Verbalize understanding of condition/disease process and treatment.
• Identify the relationship of current signs/symptoms to the disease process and correlate these with
causative factors.
• Initiate necessary lifestyle changes and participate in the treatment regimen.

Nursing Interventions Rationale

Nursing Assessment

Explain and reinforce explanations of the Decreases anxiety and can lead to improved
individual disease process. Encourage patient participation in the treatment plan.
and SO to ask questions.

Monitoring disease process allows for
Discuss the importance of medical follow-up alterations in the therapeutic regimen to meet
care, periodic chest x-rays, sputum cultures. changing needs and may help prevent
complications.

Therapeutic Interventions

Pursed-lip and abdominal or diaphragmatic
breathing exercises strengthen muscles of
Instruct and reinforce the rationale for respiration, help minimize collapse of small
breathing exercises, coughing effectively, and airways, and provide the individual with means
general conditioning exercises. to control dyspnea. General conditioning
exercises increase activity tolerance, muscle
strength, and sense of well-being.

Stress importance of oral care and dental Decreases bacterial growth in the mouth, which
hygiene. can lead to pulmonary infections.

Discuss the importance of avoiding people
with active respiratory infections. Stress need Decreases exposure to and incidence of
for routine influenza and pneumococcal acquired acute URIs.
vaccinations.

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