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Student Nurses' Community: Nursing Care Plan Rabies

1. The patient reported being bitten by a dog while walking home. 2. Rabies is a viral disease transmitted through bites or scratches from infected animals. It affects the nervous system and is fatal without treatment. 3. The nursing care plan involves washing the wound, applying antiseptics, isolating the patient, and monitoring for timely wound healing.

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Student Nurses' Community: Nursing Care Plan Rabies

1. The patient reported being bitten by a dog while walking home. 2. Rabies is a viral disease transmitted through bites or scratches from infected animals. It affects the nervous system and is fatal without treatment. 3. The nursing care plan involves washing the wound, applying antiseptics, isolating the patient, and monitoring for timely wound healing.

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Student Nurses’ Community

NURSING CARE PLAN ─ Rabies


ASSESSMENT DIAGNOSIS INFERENCE PLANNING INTERVENTION RATIONALE EVALUATION

SUBJECTIVE: Impaired skin Rabies is a zoonotic After 8 hours of INDEPENDENT:  Provide baseline After 8 hours of
integrity related to viral disease which nursing  Assess or information nursing
“Nakagat ako ng disruption of skin infects domestic interventions, the document size, about the wound interventions, the
aso habang pauwi surface with and wild animals. It patient will achieve color, depth of and possible patient was able to
ako” (I got bitten by destruction of skin is transmitted to timely wound wound, and clues about the achieve timely
a dog on my way layers. other animals and healing. condition of blood circulation wound healing.
home) as humans through surrounding skin. in the affected
verbalized by the close contact with  Thoroughly wash area.
patient. saliva from infected the wound as  Washing the
animals (i.e. bites, soon as possible affected area is
OBJECTIVE: scratches, licks on with soap and very effective at
skin, and mucous water for reducing the
 Facial grimace membranes). Once approximately 5 number of viral
 Irritability symptoms of the minutes. particles.
disease develop,  After washing, an  To hasten the
 V/S taken as rabies is fatal to antiseptic spread of the
follows: both animals and solution should viral disease in
humans. The first be applied in the the surrounding
T: 37.2 °C symptoms of rabies wound such as area.
P: 81 are usually non- providone-iodine  To promote
R: 21 specific and suggest and alcohol circulation
BP: 120/70 involvement of the (ethanol).  To reduce the ris
respiratory,  Keep skin free of cross-
gastrointestinal from pressure contamination
and/or central  Implement
nervous systems. contact isolation
During the acute for respiratory
stage of the disease secretions,
two different forms especially saliva
may occur. Furious in the duration of
Student Nurses’ Community
rabies is the illness.
characterized by
hydrophobia or
aerophobia,
hyperactivity and
fluctuating
consciousness.
Paralytic rabies
runs a less dramatic
course, but the
final outcome is the
same. Rabies is
inevitably fatal and
death occurs during
the first seven days
of illness without
intensive care due
to respiratory
failure.

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