After completing an assessment, the nurse identifies the nursing ...

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After completing an assessment, the nurse identifies the nursing diagnosis Decisional Conflict related to unclear personal values as evidenced by vacillating between alternate choices.
 
  The nurse will be able to choose intervention strategies based on this diagnostic statement because interventions should be directed at what?
  A) Ameliorating the related factors of the diagnosis
  B) Identifying the defining characteristics of the diagnosis
  C) Identifying wise decisions for the client
  D) Giving sound advice to the client

Question 2

When conducting an interview with a mental health client, the client states, I am here because I want to get help. I keep hearing voices in my head they won't go away. I am afraid I might hurt someone. What type of information do these statements repres
 
  A) Objective data
  B) Subjective data
  C) Psychosocial assessment
  D) Healthy history

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: A
Feedback:
After establishing behavioral outcomes, nurses select appropriate nursing actions, or interventions, to help clients achieve them. A wide array of nursing interventions, many of them evidence based, exists. The purpose of interventions is to address the related factors of the diagnosis.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: B
Feedback:
Clients provide subjective data, or information that depends on their report, ranging from the reason for seeking help, to why they think the problem or illness occurred, to what they expect as an outcome of treatment.