Articulate and Prioritise Nursing Diagnoses

Your student number:
CNA253 AT3
Scenario: Identify your patient
Ms. L
Articulate and Prioritise Nursing Diagnoses
1. Risk for deficit fluid volume as the vomiting is continuous for 72 hours
2. Pain in the upper abdomen and the pain rating is 8 out of 10 scales.
Provide a valid reason for the prioritisation
The priority would be treating and finding the proper site of the pain in the abdomen. However, the fluid risk also needed to
be assessed by means of medical tests.
Goals, Actions and Evaluation: (400 words)
Diagnosis 1 Goal/s Related actions Rationale Evaluate outcomes
Risk assessment of the
pain
Ultra sound of the
abdomen for site
detection of
The pain.
Proper medication.
Nasogastric tube
insertion inside the
body for the
decompression.
Molassiotis et al.
(2016), highlighted
that the risk
assessment of the pain
is needed in case of
the nauseate condition
of a patient as it would
be leading to stomach
cancer if the proper
diagnosis could not be
assessed. According to
Ultra sound of the
stomach would be
helpful in the
determination of any
kind of foreign content
causing the problem or
other tumour like
protrusions are the
cause of the disease.
Thus on the basis of
the evaluation the

Allan et al. (2018), the
pain and vomiting are
the common
symptoms of nausea
however the
assessment of the
problem needed to be
done with utmost
priority as the
conditions could lead
to other severe
problems.
treatment can be
proceeded. On the
other hand the
medication for the pain
relieves and the
Nasogastric tube
insertion would also be
helpful for the site
detection of the
problem.
Diagnosis 2 Goal/s Related actions Rationale Evaluate outcomes
Deficit Fluid volume
prevention
Proper medication.
Providing basin in very
close range in order to
provide proper care in
this situation.
Providing with liquid
hydrating agents such
as saline and others.
Rocca and Vetrugno
(2016), highlighted
that the need of the
fluid treatment is one
of the primary health
Liquid hydrating
agents would be
helpful in decreasing
the deficiency of the
patient’s body and