Readiness for diabetic teaching is an example of what type of nursing diagnosis?
a. actual nursing diagnosis c. risk nursing diagnosis
b. health-promotion diagnosis d. syndrome
B
An actual nursing diagnosis "describes human responses to health conditions/life processes that exist in an individual, family, group, or community. These diagnoses are sometimes referred to as 'problem' diagnoses" (Herdman, 2012, p. 515). A health-promotion nursing diagnosis is a "clinical judgment about a person's, family's, group's, or community's motivation and desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential as expressed in the readiness to enhance specific health behaviors, and which can be used in any health state" (Herdman, 2012, p. 515). A risk nursing diagnosis is a "clinical judgment about human experience/responses to health conditions/life processes that have a high probability of developing in a vulnerable individual, family, group, or community" (Herdman, 2012, p. 515). And a syndrome nursing diagnosis is defined as a "clinical judgment describing a specific cluster of nursing diagnoses that occur together, and are best addressed together and through similar interventions" (Herdman, 2012, p. 515).
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