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charchew

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The patient's nursing diagnosis is pain associated with walking related to knee injury. The LPN/LVN should accurately identify the patient problem as
 
  a. arthritis.
  b. unwillingness to exercise.
  c. need for knee brace.
  d. knee pain.

Question 2

A nurse expresses difficulty deciding which nursing interventions to suggest for a patient with arthritic pain during an upcoming patient-centered conference. A peer suggests referring to the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) taxonomy.
 
  This would provide the nurse with information on
 
  a. how to provide basic care to patients.
  b. identification of nursing measures to help patients progress toward goals.
  c. a language for measuring patients' response to nursing interventions.
  d. how to translate nursing diagnoses into nursing problems.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Knee pain is the best translation given for the nursing diagnosis. Arthritis is a medical diagnosis. Unwillingness to exercise assumes information not given in the scenario. Need for a knee brace prescribes a treatment.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
NIC standardizes, defines, and assists nurses in choosing the appropriate nursing interventions. It includes physical and psychosocial interventions, health promotion, illness treatment, and independent and collaborative interventions. NIC is not a basic text. NIC does not provide a measurement language. NIC does not give information about translating nursing diagnoses into nursing problems.





 

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