Definition :
Self Care Deficit is used when there is impaired ability to perform or complete bathing / hygiene, dressing / grooming, feeding, or toileting activities for oneself.
Self Care Deficit Related To :
As Evidenced By :
Self Care Deficit is used when there is impaired ability to perform or complete bathing / hygiene, dressing / grooming, feeding, or toileting activities for oneself.
Self Care Deficit Related To :
- Perceptual or cognitive impairment
- Decreased or lack of motivation (anergia)
- Severe anxiety
- Severe preoccupation
- Consuming insufficient food or nutrients to meet minimum daily requirements
- Awakening earlier or later than desired
- Decreased ability to function secondary to sleep deprivation
- Weight loss
- Persistent insomnia or hypersomnia
- Body odor/hair unwashed and unkempt
- Inability to organize simple steps in hygiene and grooming
- Constipation related to lack of exercise, roughage in diet, and poor fluid intake
- Performs all tasks of self-care consistently (all ADL*)
- Experiences normal elimination
- Sleeps 6 to 8 hours a night without medication
- Gradually return to weight consistent for height and age or baseline before illness by (date)
- Sleep between 6 to 8 hours per night within 1 month
- Demonstrate progress in the maintenance of adequate hygiene and be appropriately groomed and dressed (shave/makeup, clothes clean and neat)
- Experience normal elimination with the aid of diet, fluids, and exercise within 3 weeks
- Gain 1 pound a week with encouragement from family, significant others, and/or staff if significant weight loss exists.
- Sleep between 4 and 6 hours with aid of medication and/or nursing measures.
- Groom and dress appropriately with help from nursing staff and/or family.
- Regain more normal elimination pattern with aid of foods high in roughage, increased fluids, and exercise daily (also with aid of medications).
