Paper Instructions: all quotes must be paraphrased and cited. Only use scholarly peer reviewed resources.
essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point.
Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) sources in your essay.
Write an essay on Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. Include the following:
Explain the pathophysiology
Explain the diagnostic findings such as:
What are the effects of DIC on the Prothrombin Time (PT)?
What are the effects of DIC on the Partial thromboplastin time (PTT)?
What are the effects of DIC on Platelets, fibrin split products (FSPs)?
What are the effects of DIC on Fibrin degradation products (FDPs)?
Interprofessional and nursing management of disseminated intravascular coagulation
Include:
A priority nursing diagnosis
Use a NANDA nursing diagnosis that is related to this topic (3-part nursing diagnosis)(Problem r/t xxx as evidenced by xxx).
Plan of care:
Describe goals and outcomes related to this topic
Use the SMART acronym to describe expected outcomes:
Specific to the patient and the problem
Measuranble (generally, quantifiable with a number, for example, if you are providing patient education, the patient will identify and teach back 3 things you taught, or if activity intolerance is the problem, state that the patient will be able to ambulate an extra 25 feet each day)
Achievable
Realistic
Timeframe able to be achieved in a reasonable amount of time
Intervention
Describe interventions that are common with this topic (at least 3).
here is a resource for nursing diagnosis:
https://ar.israa.edu.ps/uploads/documents/2020/02/4gcM0.pdf
Here are resources to come up with interventions (but do not cite them in paper)
https://nursestudy.net/
https://rnlessons.com