Author Question: What is the primary purpose of the outcome identification and planning step of the nursing process? ... (Read 46 times)

Frost2351 · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

What is the primary purpose of the outcome identification and planning step of the nursing process?

A) To collect and analyze data to establish a database
B) To interpret and analyze data so as to identify health problems
C) To write appropriate client-centered nursing diagnoses
D) To design a plan of care for and with the client

Question 2

A male client is scheduled to be fitted with a prosthesis following the loss of his nondominant hand in a farm accident several weeks earlier. Nurses have documented the following outcome during this stage of his care:

After attending an educational session, client will demonstrate correct technique for applying his prosthesis. Which of this client's following statements would signal a need to amend this outcome?

A) I'm not interested one bit in wearing an artificial hand.
B) I'm worried that I'm going to get some really strange looks when I wear this thing.
C) I don't have a clue how this thing goes on and comes off.
D) I don't understand the technology that's used in this artificial hand.

lolol · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: D

The primary purpose of outcome identification and planning is to design a plan of care for (and with) the client that, once implemented, results in the prevention, reduction, or resolution of client health problems and the attainment of the client's health expectations, as identified in the client outcomes.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: A

It is imperative that interventions and outcomes be valued by the client. The client's resistance to using a prosthesis likely invalidates the outcome that addresses his technique for its use. The other statements express cognitive and affective learning needs that would need to be addressed, but none of those precludes his eventual mastery of the prosthesis.