Author Question: Your patient is a 72-year-old man with diabetes mellitus requiring daily monitoring of his blood ... (Read 8 times)

vicky · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

Your patient is a 72-year-old man with diabetes mellitus requiring daily monitoring of his blood glucose level. Prioritize the following nursing diagnoses for this patient:

a. Imbalanced nutrition, greater than body requirements
b. Risk for infection related to unstable blood sugar
c. Impaired skin integrity related to second-degree right malleolar decubitus
d. Disturbed body image related to obesity
1. b, c, d, a
2. a, d, b, c
3. d, b, c, a
4. c, b, a, d

Question 2

The nurse who is demonstrating compliance with the American Nurses Association (ANA) standards of care would routinely do which of the following?

1. Apply research findings to client care.
2. Apply the nursing process to meet client's needs.
3. Perform peer evaluation to evaluate compliance with standards.
4. Participate in continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities to improve quality of care.