Osteoarthritis Nursing Assessment

Nursing Assessment

Activity / Rest
  • Joint pain due to movement, tenderness worsens with stress on the joints, stiffness in the morning, usually occurs bilaterally and symmetrically limitimasi functional effect on lifestyle, leisure, work, fatigue, malaise.
  • Limitation of movement, muscle atrophy, skin: contractor / abnormalities in the joints and muscles.

Cardiovascular
  • Raynaud's phenomenon of the hand (eg litermiten pallor, cyanosis and redness of the fingers before the color returned to normal.

Ego Integrity
  • Stress factors of acute / chronic (eg financial jobs, disability, relationship factors.
  • Hopelessness and helplessness (inability situation).
  • Threats to the self-concept, body image, personal identity, such as dependence on others.

Food / Fluids
  • The inability to produce or consume food or liquids adequately nausea, anorexia.
  • The difficulty in chewing, weight loss, dryness of mucous membranes.

Hygiene
  • The difficulties to implement self-care activities, dependence on others.
  • Neuro Sensory
  • Tingling in hands and feet, swelling of joints

Pain / comfort
  • The acute phase of pain (probably not accompanied by soft tissue swelling in the joints. Chronic pain and stiffness (especially early morning).

Security
  • Skin shiny, taut, nodules sub mitaneus
  • Skin lesions, leg ulkas
  • Difficulty in handling tasks / household maintenance
  • Mild fever settled
  • Dryness of the eyes and mucous membranes

Social Interaction
  • Damage interaction with family or others, the changing role: the insulation.

Counseling / Learning
  • Family history of arthritis in
  • Use of health foods, vitamins, cure disease without testing
  • History of pericarditis, valve lesion edge. Pulmonary fibrosis, pkeuritis.