Criteria Duration Of Illness

CRITERIA Duration of illness

Onset of illness

Precipitating Factors

POOR

FAIR

GOOD

JUSTIFICATION During our shift the patient had already been suffering from dengue hemorrhagic fever for already a week including the days prior to admission. Herewith, the laboratory results specifically his platelet was still low which indicates that he will be confined for a few more days until he will recover. The signs and symptoms of the patient were evident to be diagnosed of dengue hemorrhagic fever such as cough, watery renal discharges, fever of 37.9oC, and muscular rashes. And so, with this further examinations were conducted during hospitalization. As the group has interviewed the grandmother of the patient, it was revealed that the child acquired dengue hemorrhagic fever due to the environment he is in. In DHF there is only one precipitating factor which is the vector. Since the family already knew the suitable place of growth for this vector then it would be easy for them to prevent such event to

Compliance to treatment regimen

Age

Environment

Family Support

repeat again. During our shift Cristian was not difficult to handle but there are some instances that the family find it hard to feed Cristian since he has lost his appetite. On the other hand, he has already the capacity to understand things such as taking of medicines on time, so the group graded him fair. We all know that dengue hemorrhagic fever is common in children ages below 15 years old and so with this we had come up with a rating of poor since the client is very much prone with this illness. Upon our interview we came to know that he is studying at DRANHS and it was said that there was a renovation going on just next to their classroom. Nowadays, rainy season is common and because of this drums were also provided to store the dripping of the rain wherein later on it caused mosquitoes to settle in the area. Family support ranked good since the relatives were present to accompany the patient and they had also provide his needs

physically, mentally and emotionally most especially in combating against his illness.

Computations

1

2

4

X2

X1

X4

2

2

16

20/7 = 2.86

Rating Scale: Poor: 1.0 – 1.6 Fair: 1.7 – 2.3 Good: 2.4 – 3 The proponents come up with the rating of 2.86 which is interpreted as good. The factors that were rated as poor were duration of illness and the age since the condition of the patient was not yet stable and considering the age of the patient is most likely to have a dengue hemorrhagic fever wherein Cristian’s age was very much prone with this illness. While the criterion that was rated as fair was only the compliance of treatment regimen and the rest were categorized as good because signs and symptoms of dengue, causative factors and support of the family were highly evident.