Author Question: Your client is a 19-year-old woman living in a one-room apartment with a friend. She has a part-time ... (Read 94 times)

yoooooman · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

Your client is a 19-year-old woman living in a one-room apartment with a friend. She has a part-time job as a cashier at a convenience store and says that she has put off medical care because she has no money and no health insurance.

She is being assessed for a non-healing sore at an IV injection site on her forearm. An appropriate nursing diagnosis would be:
1. Ineffective health maintenance.
2. Imbalanced nutrition.
3. Ineffective coping.
4. Dysfunctional grieving.

Question 2

Your client has the diagnosis Ineffective health maintenance. Your nursing interventions will include which of the following?

1. providing health education and counseling for prevention of health risks
2. encouraging the client's family to demand that the client change the high-risk behavior
3. giving the client health information about the dangers associated with the high-risk behavior
4. encouraging the client to attend a support group to receive support for changing the high-risk behavior