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Hearing loss - Coggle Diagram
Hearing loss
Nursing interventions
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Stay calm at all the times, in that way the patient will be calm also
Give the patient some time to answer during conversation, do not rush the patient
Do not use open-ended questions when speaking, speak slowly
Ensure no noise when talking to the patient, so that the patient can be able to hear you clearly
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Pathophysiology
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OR lesions of the inner ear (sensory) or the auditory (8th) nerve (neural). Which is rarely curable.
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May be caused by earwax, working in a noisy environments, infections and aging, congenital or by medications such as lasix and NSAIDs
Clinical manifestations
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For everything that people say, you keep on asking them to repeat
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Nursing care plan
Nursing assessment
Check history for mental state and medication such as diuretics, antidepressants drugs that can cause impairment of hearing
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Assess background that can cause patient to not hear properly, e.g noisy background
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Definition
A chronic or aging condition that results from a person not being able to hear what other people say correctly
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