Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Fatigue
- c/o lack of physical and or mental energy that is perceived by the person as interfering with normal daily activites.
- Scope= no fatigue to exhaustion
- 3 Defining Characteristics of Fatgue:
- feeling of weakness causing
inability to perform certain
activities
- Easily fatigued/ Reduced
performanace
- Mental fatigue
causing
impaired
concentration,
memory loss
and emotional
instability
- Leading Causes of Fatigue
- Waste product
accumulation
- Insufficient supply of
substances
- An inflammatory
process/response
- Risk Factors
- All ages at risk
Greatest risk in
older adults and
women
- med conditions/tx
nutritional status
lifestyle choices
- Primary Preventions
*Exercise *Good nutrition
*adequate sleep *managing
stress *vitamin
supplements
- Secondary Prevention
*population-wide screening
efforts to reduce *use fatigue
screening tool to ask add't
questions to high-risk
patients
- Collaborative Interventions *managing
poor lifestyle/disease *treat underlying
condition to reduce fatigue
*exercise/rest therapy *sleep hygiene
*nutrition teaching *stress
management *pharmacological tx
*psychological care
- usually normal & relieved by
mental or physical rest but
considered abnormal when
persistent or severe
- Temporary or chronic
(>6 months)
- Subjective Data
- Assessment
- * Subjective/personal
description *onset/course
*duration & daily pattern
*Factors that alleivate or
exacerbate *impact on daily life
- Physical Exa,m *inspection: general
appearance, gait, skin *palpitation:
lymph adenopathy, thyroid nodules, &
goiter *auscultation: heart & lungs
underlying conditions
- *Diagnostic test to rule out
underlying dx