Learning Objectives- Chapter 10, Nursing Management: Patients With Chest and Lower
Respiratory Tract Disorders
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Identify patients at risk for atelectasis and describe nursing interventions related to its
prevention and management.
2. Compare the various pulmonary infections with regard to causes, clinical manifestations,
nursing management, complications, and prevention.
3. Use the nursing process as a framework for care of the patient with pneumonia.
4. Describe the nursing management for patients receiving oxygen therapy, mini-nebulizer
therapy, incentive spirometry, chest physiotherapy, and breathing retraining.
5. Relate pleurisy, pleural effusion, and empyema to pulmonary infection.
6. Relate the therapeutic management techniques of acute respiratory distress syndrome
(ARDS) to the underlying pathophysiology of the syndrome.
7. Describe risk factors and measures appropriate for prevention and management of
pulmonary embolism (PE).
8. Describe risk factors for the development of occupational lung disease.
9. Discuss the modes of therapy and related nursing management for patients with lung
cancer.
10. Describe the complications of chest trauma and their clinical manifestations and nursing
management.
11. Describe nursing measures to prevent aspiration.
12. Explain the principles of chest drainage and the nursing responsibilities related to the care
of the patient with a chest drainage system.