Nursing Care Plan for Lymphatic Filariasis / Elephantiasis
Low Self-Esteem related to physical changes
Interventions:
- Acknowledge the feeling of normalcy.
- Listen to client complaints and the responses of the state experienced.
- Note withdrawn behavior, considered himself to be negative, the use of denial or not too concerned about actual change.
- Instruct the nearest person to treat the client as normal (tells the story of a family).
- Receive the client, show attention to the patient as an individual.
- Provide accurate information. Discuss treatment and prognosis honestly if the client already in the phase of receiving
- Collaboration: Refer to consult or psychotherapy in accordance with an indication of the expected introduction of the feeling of helping the client to receive and deal with it effectively.
- Giving guidance to the client in view themselves, their changing role and needs, and is useful to provide information on the current stage of acceptance.
- Identify phase loss / needs intervention.
- Pay attention to the client in the family, reducing the feeling worthless, helpless, and feeling isolated from the environment and can also provide opportunities to improve the welfare of people nearby.
- Create an atmosphere teraupeutik on the client to initiate self-acceptance.
- Focus of the information should be given to the needs of the present and immediate first, and included in long-term rehabilitation purposes
- May be required in addition to adapt to changes in self-image.
- Improving the state of the low self-esteem.
