The nurse is planning care for a client with conjunctivitis and selects risk for altered vision as a nursing diagnosis when the client tells the nurse which of the following?
1. "I have had the infection for 3 days.".
2. "I caught the infection from my child.".
3. "This is the fourth infection like this.".
4. "My mother is blind from retinopathy.".
3. "This is the fourth infection like this.".
Rationale:
The concern for this client is the repeated infections that could be a chronic form of conjunctivitis that causes eventual blindness. Having the infection for 3 days is concerning but not as much as the potentially chronic form of the disease. Many adults catch "pink eye" from a child, but that is not usually the form that causes blindness. The client's mother has blindness from a source other than conjunctivitis.
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