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If Tonya were to write on the patient’s care plan, “use progressive relaxation”, would that be an appropriate way of writing an intervention? If not, which error has been made?
Case summary:
Ms.T is the staff nurse who is involved in nursing care planning of Mr. L. The nursing diagnosis for Mr. L is acute pain related to the trauma of surgical incision. The goal of the nursing care is identified as “patient will use a relaxation technique after ambulation”; and the outcomes are “pain level below 4 and the incision does not splint within 48 hours of time when Mr.L is moving”. The interventions that are selected by Ms. T are administering the analgesics ordered, advanced relaxation and splinting the incision when Mr.L gets out of bed.
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