Using the Alfaro-LeFevre approach to prioritizing nursing ...

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Using the Alfaro-LeFevre approach to prioritizing nursing diagnoses, which of these nursing diagnoses should the nurse focus on first?
 
  a. Airway clearance, ineffective, related to excessive secretions
  b. Anxiety related to unknown outcome of illness
  c. Coping, individual, ineffective, related to loss of independence
  d. Self-care deficit, feeding, related to decreased strength and endurance

Question 2

The nurse administers care to all clients in exactly the same manner, without regard to race, gender, age, or expected outcome. This is an example of which ethical theory?
 
  a. caring based theory c. situational theory
  b. deontology d. teleology

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Answer to Question 1

A
Nursing diagnoses must then be prioritized. The diagnoses that address life-threatening physiologic problems (first-level priority problems), such as those affecting respiration, temperature regulation, or nutrition, are classified as higher priority. Each of the client's nursing diagnoses would then be prioritized according to its corresponding level of priority (second-level priority problems, such as mental status changes, acute pain, etc., and third-level priority problems, such as others that do not fit in the first two categories).

Answer to Question 2

B
According to the theory of deontology, the intrinsic significance of an act itself is the criterion for determination of good; the motives of the person performing the act are as important as the consequences of that act. The basic concept of this theory is the categorical imperative, which states that a person should act only if the action is based on a universal principle (everyone would act the same way in a similar situation) and that a person should never be treated as the means to an end.