A 32-year-old client with an admitting diagnosis of catatonic schizophrenia has been mute and motionless for 2 days. The priority nursing diagnosis is:
1. Risk for deficient fluid volume
2. Impaired physical mobility
3. Impaired social interaction
4. Ineffective coping
ANS: 1
The highest priority for the client is maintenance of basic physiologic needs while the client is stuporous. Option 2: Mobility is of lesser importance than fluid volume. Options 3 and 4 are not physiologic needs.
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