Orthopedic nursing care involves monitoring patients with musculoskeletal disorders like fractures and arthritis. It includes taking vital signs, administering prescribed drugs, applying ice or splints to injured areas, ensuring proper wound care and dressing changes, using aseptic techniques, educating patients and their families, and providing assistive devices and positions that minimize pressure and movement of the affected body parts to promote healing.
2. • Defition:
• This is the nursing care given to people
with musculoskeletal diseases and disorders
like arthritis, fractures, broken bones, joint
replacements and osteoporosis.
• Nursing Care includes;
3. • Vital observations taking eg temperature,
Pulse rate, BP etc
• Applying ice on the affected area.
• Administering the prescribed drugs
appropriately.
• Creating nurse patient relationship.
• Reassuring the clients and family members.
• Proper care is required for dressing
4. • Encouraging bed rest.
• Covering the wound with adhesive bandages
also helps in wound healing.
• Changing of dressing after round1or 2 days.
• Confidentiality must be maintained.
• Use of septic techniques.
• Applying splints.
5. • Support and educate people and their
families.
• Promoting proper nutrition
• Provide adequate hydration.
• Applying fracture boards on the to reduce
unnecessary movements.
• Providing wheel chairs and lifting the patient
properly to minimize pressure on the affected
parts.
6. • Providing sand bags on the affected limb to
minimize movements.
• The End
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