The nurse caring for a client with a terminal illness who believes the diagnosis is a punishment from God would consider which of the following nursing diagnosis most appropriate?
1. Anxiety
2. Caregiver Role Strain
3. Anticipatory Grieving
4. Spiritual Distress
4
Rationale: The client who believes she is being punished for misdeeds by a terminal illness willed by God is experiencing spiritual distress, and this would be an appropriate nursing diagnosis. More information would be needed to determine if the other diagnoses have any application to this client.
You might also like to view...
Two weeks after a severe burn of over 20% of the body, the patient vomits bright red blood. Which condition is most likely?
a. Curling ulcer b. Paralytic ileus c. Hypoglycemia perforation of the stomach by the NG tube d. Gastritis
Just before the second course of chemotherapy, the laboratory calls to report that the patient’s neutrophil count is 450 cells/mm3. The nurse expects that the oncologist will follow which course of treatment?
A nurse researcher should consider mortality a threat to the study's internal validity for which of these reasons?
a. There is concern that the intervention may have harmful effects on subjects. b. Those who dropped out of the study may be different than those who remained in the study. c. Those who participated in the study may have died as a result of being in the study. d. There is concern that the design is inappropriate for the study question if a large number of participants drop out of a study.
A recently graduated psychiatric–mental health nurse is feeling highly anxious before conducting an interview with a client. This feeling of anxiety is likely to be:
A) Beneficial to the interaction by increasing the nurse's focus and attention B) Detrimental to the interaction by decreasing the nurse's focus and attention C) Beneficial to the interaction by increasing the client's self-awareness D) Detrimental to the interaction by decreasing the client's self-awareness