T

T & A (Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy)

Ineffective Airway Clearance r/t hesitation or reluctance to cough because of pain

Deficient Knowledge: potential for enhanced health maintenance r/t insufficient knowledge regarding postoperative nutritional and rest requirements, signs and symptoms of complications, positioning

Nausea r/t gastric irritation, pharmaceuticals, anesthesia

Acute Pain r/t surgical incision

Risk for Aspiration/Suffocation: Risk factors: postoperative drainage and impaired swallowing

Risk for deficient Fluid Volume: Risk factors: decreased intake because of painful swallowing, effects of anesthesia (nausea, vomiting), hemorrhage

Risk for imbalanced Nutrition: less than body requirements: Risk factors: hesitation or reluctance to swallow

Tachycardia

See Dysrhythmia

Tachypnea

Ineffective Breathing Pattern r/t pain, anxiety

See cause of Tachypnea

Tardive Dyskinesia

Ineffective Self-Health Management r/t complexity of therapeutic regimen or medication

Deficient Knowledge r/t cognitive limitation in assimilating information relating to side effects associated with neuroleptic medications

Risk for Injury: Risk factor: drug-induced abnormal body movements

Taste Abnormality

Adult Failure to Thrive r/t imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements associated with taste abnormality

TB (Pulmonary Tuberculosis)

Ineffective Airway Clearance r/t increased secretions, excessive mucus

Ineffective Breathing Pattern r/t decreased energy, fatigue

Fatigue r/t disease state

Impaired Gas Exchange r/t disease process

Ineffective Self-Health Management r/t deficient knowledge of prevention and treatment regimen

Impaired Home Maintenance management r/t client or family member with disease

Hyperthermia r/t infection

Risk for Infection: Risk factors: insufficient knowledge regarding avoidance of exposure to pathogens

Readiness for enhanced Self-Health Management: takes medications according to prescribed protocol for prevention and treatment

TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)

Interrupted Family Processes r/t traumatic injury to family member

Chronic Sorrow r/t change in health status and functional ability

Risk for Post-Trauma Syndrome: Risk factor: perception of event causing TBI

Risk for impaired Religiosity: Risk factor: impaired physical mobility

Risk for compromised Resilience: Risk factor: crisis of injury

See Head Injury; Neurologic Disorders

TD (Traveler’s Diarrhea)

Diarrhea r/t travel

Risk for deficient Fluid Volume: Risk factors: excessive loss of fluids, diarrhea

Risk for Infection: Risk factors: insufficient knowledge regarding avoidance of exposure to pathogens (water supply, iced drinks, local cheeses, ice cream, undercooked meat, fish and shellfish, uncooked vegetables, unclean eating utensils, improper handwashing)

Temperature, Decreased

Hypothermia r/t exposure to cold environment

Temperature, Increased

Hyperthermia r/t dehydration, illness, trauma

Temperature Regulation, Impaired

Ineffective Thermoregulation r/t trauma, illness

TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis)

See Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN)

Tension

Anxiety r/t threat to or change in health status, situational crisis

Disturbed Energy Field r/t change in health status, discouragement, pain

Readiness for enhanced Communication: expresses willingness to share feelings and thoughts

See Stress

Terminally Ill Adult

Death Anxiety r/t unresolved issues relating to death and dying

Disturbed Energy Field r/t impending disharmony of mind, body, spirit

Risk for Spiritual Distress: Risk factor: impending death

Readiness for enhanced Religiosity: requests religious material and/or experiences

Readiness for enhanced Spiritual Well-Being: desire to achieve harmony of mind, body, spirit

See Terminally Ill Child/Death of Child, Parent

Terminally Ill Child, Adolescent

Disturbed Body Image r/t effects of terminal disease, already critical feelings of group identity and self-image

Ineffective Coping r/t inability to establish personal and peer identity because of the threat of being different or not being healthy, inability to achieve maturational tasks

Impaired Social Interaction/Social Isolation r/t forced separation from peers

See Child with Chronic Condition; Hospitalized Child, Terminally Ill Child/Death of Child, Parent

Terminally Ill Child, Infant/Toddler

Ineffective Coping r/t separation from parents and familiar environment attributable to inability to understand dying process

See Child with Chronic Condition, Terminally Ill Child/Death of Child, Parent

Terminally Ill Child, Preschool Child

Fear r/t perceived punishment, bodily harm, feelings of guilt caused by magical thinking (i.e., believing that thoughts cause events)

See Child with Chronic Condition, Terminally Ill Child/Death of Child, Parent

Terminally Ill Child, School-Age Child/Preadolescent

Fear r/t perceived punishment, body mutilation, feelings of guilt

See Child with Chronic Condition, Terminally Ill Child/Death of Child, Parent

Terminally Ill Child/Death of Child, Parent

Compromised family Coping r/t inability or unwillingness to discuss impending death and feelings with child or support child through terminal stages of illness

Decisional Conflict r/t continuation or discontinuation of treatment, do-not-resuscitate decision, ethical issues regarding organ donation

Ineffective Denial r/t complicated grieving

Interrupted Family Processes r/t situational crisis

Grieving r/t death of child

Hopelessness r/t overwhelming stresses caused by terminal illness

Insomnia r/t grieving process

Impaired Parenting r/t risk for overprotection of surviving siblings

Powerlessness r/t inability to alter course of events

Impaired Social Interaction r/t complicated grieving

Social Isolation: imposed by others r/t feelings of inadequacy in providing support to grieving parents

Social Isolation: self-imposed r/t unresolved grief, perceived inadequate parenting skills

Spiritual Distress r/t sudden and unexpected death, prolonged suffering before death, questioning the death of youth, questioning the meaning of one’s own existence

Risk for complicated Grieving: Risk factors: prolonged, unresolved, obstructed progression through stages of grief and mourning

Risk for compromised Resilience: Risk factor: impending death

Readiness for enhanced family Coping: impact of crisis on family values, priorities, goals, or relationships; expressed interest or desire to attach meaning to child’s life and death

Tetralogy of Fallot

See Congenital Heart Disease/Cardiac Anomalies

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