Nursing care plan Risk for injury related to diminished/decreased visionShort term goal: The patient will be able to perform activity of daily living without injuring selfLong term goal: the patient will demonstrate improvement quality of life with minimal to no risk for injury by incorporating life style and home environment modifications throughout hospitalizationQuestionList 20 nursing interventions with rationales for the nursing diagnosis above based on the scenario CASE STUDY ON CATARACTMrs. Janet Donald is a 66-year-old woman who lives alone in her own home. Her son foundher unconscious on the floor approximately four hours after sustaining a fall. She wasadmitted to the Mount Hope hospital for ovemight observation. On admission, she had asmall bump on her forehead but was awake, alert and oriented to time, place and person.When interviewed about the incident, she said that she has been experiencing blurring of hervision and complained of seeing glares and halos whenever she looks at bright lights even for|a split second. However, she ignored these, attributing them to tiredness. She admits that hervision is very foggy and she is having problems seeing as clear as she use to in earlier years.She claims that she under estimated the placement of the nat and her foot got entangled in ither eyes looked cloudy. Mrs.while exiting the bath. Assessment shows that the lensDonald was reviewed by the ophthalmologist on call and was diagnosed as having cataract inboth eyes. She was scheduled for removal of cataract in the right eye the next day and theother eye in six months- time.

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