The Nurse Identifies That a Client Has Not Met the Expected

question 13

Multiple Choice

The nurse identifies that a client has not met the expected outcome established for the nursing diagnosis Ineffective Individual Coping. What nursing action is priority?

• A) Explore reasons why the outcome was not achieved.
• B) Revise the nursing diagnosis.
• C) Rewrite the interventions used to address the problem.
• D) Reassess the patient, looking for previously unknown stressors.

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Definitions:

Zone Of Proximal Development

A concept in developmental psychology referring to the difference between what a learner can do without help and what they can achieve with guidance and encouragement from a skilled partner.

Pretend Play

A type of imaginative play where children create scenarios and roles, often involving objects or actions representing something else.

Mental Acts

Cognitive processes involved in the acquisition, processing, storage, and retrieval of information.

Mutual Exclusivity Assumption

The cognitive bias prompting the assumption that any given object will have only one name, often observed in language acquisition.