A Nursing Student Expresses Some Confusion About Identifying the Appropriate

question 19

Multiple Choice

A nursing student expresses some confusion about identifying the appropriate nursing diagnosis for a specific client.Which of the following responses by the clinical instructor is most instructional?

• A) "After defining the client's symptomatology,eliminate those nursing diagnoses that are not supported by the database."
• B) "Assess your client and then select the nursing diagnosis that has the greatest number of observable defining characteristics."
• C) "After assessing the client,compare their symptoms carefully to the defining characteristic of the nursing diagnosis in order to support or eliminate it as applicable."
• D) "With experience you will become skilled at identifying the defining characteristics of a nursing diagnosis in your client.Until that time use a nursing diagnosis book to help in the selection process."