A nurse is formulating a nursing diagnosis for a client with a respiratory disease. Which of the following would be correct?
A) "needs nasal oxygen to improve breathing"
B) "cough related to ineffective airway clearance"
C) "ineffective airway clearance related to thick mucus"
D) "refuses to cough and expectorate thick mucus"
Ans: C
It is important to use guidelines to formulate correctly written nursing diagnoses. The nurse would not use client needs, put defining characteristics before the diagnoses, or judge the willingness of the client to cough.
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