Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle

Exercise 3

A 45-year-old woman who is homeless is in a hospital emergency department fortreatment of severe lacerations following a hurricane. She tells the nurse she is fearfulthat her spouse, who was already admitted to the hospital with a fractured hip, isalone and suffering. She states, "I am nervous about his condition and that he will goto surgery before I see him.I know that he will be better if he knows that I am allright, too.Please, let me see him!" Generate a list of possible nursing diagnoses forthis patient.Identify the nursing interventions that would be most appropriate foreach of the possible nursing diagnoses and the evaluation criteria for theseinterventions.