The nurse is caring for a child on bed rest who has severe edema in a left lower leg due to blocked lymphatic drainage. A priority nursing diagnosis would be
1. Risk for Imbalanced Nutrition:LessThan Body Requirements.
2. Risk for Impaired Skin Integrity.
3. Risk for Altered Body Image.
4. Risk for Activity Intolerance.
Answer:2
Rationale: The highest priority problem is skin integrity.Nutrition,body image, and activity intolerance would not take priority over the integrity of the skin for this scenario.
Diagnosis
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