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storky111 · **on:** Aug 2, 2018

Nursing care plans include nursing diagnoses that have nutritional significance when the nurse assesses it as being necessary.

If the nurse is writing a nursing care plan for a client with an obvious nutritional deficiency, which nursing diagnosis would be most appropriate to include? A) Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements
B) Deficient fluid volume: less than body requirements
C) Constipation
D) Impaired oral mucous membrane

Question 2

When educating the client, the nurse understands that there can be some negativity associated with the term diet. Many clients may view diet as another term for which of the following?

A) A health behavior
B) A medical treatment
C) A positive experience
D) A short-term punishment to endure

javimendoza7 · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
Feedback:
The readiness for enhanced nutrition diagnosis relates directly to nutrition when altered nutrition is the problem, or indirectly when a change in intake will help to manage a nonnutritional problem. A deficient fluid volume, constipation, or impaired oral mucous membranes can be related to nutrition, but they are not considered an obvious nutritional deficiency.

Answer to Question 2

D
Feedback:
Among clients, diet is a four-letter word with negative connotations, such as counting calories, deprivation, sacrifice, and misery. A diet is viewed as a short-term punishment to endure until a normal pattern of eating can resume. The other answers do not cause the negative connotations the word diet does.