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lilldybug07

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A nurse is using assessment data gathered about a patient and combining critical thinking to develop a nursing diagnosis. What is the nurse doing?
 
  a. Assigning clinical cues
  b. Defining characteristics
  c. Diagnostic reasoning
  d. Diagnostic labeling

Question 2

A nurse develops a nursing diagnostic statement for a patient with a medical diagnosis of pneumonia with chest x-ray results of lower lobe infiltrates. Which nursing diagnosis did the nurse write?
 
  a. Ineffective breathing pattern related to pneumonia
  b. Risk for infection related to chest x-ray procedure
  c. Risk for deficient fluid volume related to dehydration
  d. Impaired gas exchange related to alveolar-capillary membrane changes



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
Diagnostic reasoning is defined as a process of using the assessment data gathered about a patient to logically explain a clinical judgment, in this case a nursing diagnosis. Defining characteristics are assessment findings that support the nursing diagnosis. Defining characteristics are the subjective and objective clinical cues, which a nurse gathers intentionally and unintentionally. The nurse organizes all of the patient's data into meaningful and usable data clusters, which lead to a diagnostic conclusion. Diagnostic labeling is simply the name of the diagnosis.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
The related to factor of alveolar-capillary membrane changes is accurately written because it is a patient response to the disease process of pneumonia that the nurse can treat. The related to factor should be the cause of the problem (nursing diagnosis) that a nurse can address. The related to factors of dehydration and pneumonia are all medical diagnoses that the nurse cannot change. A diagnostic test or a chronic dysfunction is not an etiology or a condition that a nursing intervention is able to treat.




lilldybug07

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Reply 2 on: Jul 22, 2018
Excellent


ryhom

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Gracias!

 

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