3 Nursing Diagnosis for Parkinson's Disease with Interventions and Evaluation

Parkinson's Disease


Nursing Diagnosis 1.

Impaired physical mobility related to bradykinesia, muscle rigidity and tremors

characterized by:
Subjective data: the client said it was difficult to do activities
Objective data: tremors while on the move

Outcome: improve the mobility

Nursing Interventions:
  • Help clients make daily exercise such as walking, cycling, swimming, or gardening.
  • Encourage clients to stretch and exercise as directed postural therapist.
  • Bathe with warm water and the clients do sorting to help muscle relaxation.
  • Instruct the client to rest on a regular basis in order to avoid weakness and frustration.
  • Teach for postural exercise and walking techniques to reduce the stiffness when walking and the possibility of learning continues.
  • Instruct the client to walk with your legs open.
  • Create a client's hand with awareness raising, lifting the feet when walking, use the shoes for walking, and walking with step length.
  • Tell the client to walk to the rhythm of music to help improve the sensory.

Evaluation: client sessions of physical therapy, facial exercise 10 minutes 2 times a day.


Nursing Diagnosis 2.

Imbalanced Nutrition Less Than Body Requirements related to the difficulty: moving the food, chewing, and swallowing

characterized by:
Subjective data: the client said it was difficult to eat, weight loss
Objective data: thin, weighing less than 20% ideal body weight, pale conjunctiva, and mucous membranes pale.

Outcome : optimize the nutritional status

Nursing Interventions:
  • Teach the client to think while swallow-shut lips and teeth together, lifting the tongue with food on it, then move the tongue back and swallowing, lifting his head to the back.
  • Instruct the client to chewing and swallowing, using a second wall of the mouth.
  • Tell the client to consciously control the accumulation of saliva by holding the head and swallow periodically.
  • Provide a sense of security on the client, with a stable eating and using the equipment.
  • Encourage eating in small portions and add a snack (snack).
  • Monitor weight.
Evaluation: the client can eat 3 times in small portions and two snacks, no weight loss.


Nursing Diagnosis 3.

Impaired verbal communication related to the decline in speech and facial muscle stiffness

characterized by:
Subjective data: client / family says the difficulty in speaking
Objective data: the words difficult to understand, pelo, faces stiff.

Outcome : maximize the ability to communicate.

Nursing Interventions:
  • Keep the complications of treatment.
  • Refer to speech therapy.
  • Teach the client and facial exercises using breathing methods to improve the words, volume, and intonation.
  • Breath deeply before speaking to increase the volume and number of words in sentences every breathe.
  • Practice speaking in short sentences, reading aloud in front of the glass or into a voice recorder (tape recorder) to monitor progress.
Evaluation: the lack of difficulty in speaking, words can be understood.