Which nursing diagnosis explains the primary reason many clients with severe and persistent mental illness attain goals while hospitalized but manifest problematic behaviors when discharged to community placements?
1. Lack of adequate supervision related to inadequate community financing
2. Noncompliance with medications related to unacceptable side effects
3. Impaired judgment related to psychiatric symptoms
4. Interrupted family processes related to fear
ANS: 2
Medication noncompliance leads to recurrence of psychiatric symptoms and problematic behav-iors. A major factor in medication noncompliance is the unacceptability of side effects to the cli-ent. Options 1 and 3 are not NANDA diagnoses. Option 4 is not a primary reason for the phe-nomenon in question.
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