The nurse developing a plan of care for a patient with cardiomyopathy should include which of the following priority outcomes?
A) Absence of complications
B) Adherence to the self-care program
C) Improved cardiac output
D) Increased activity tolerance
Ans: C
Feedback: The priority nursing diagnosis of a patient with cardiomyopathy would include improved or maintained cardiac output. Regardless of the category and cause, cardiomyopathy may lead to severe heart failure, lethal dysrhythmias, and death. The pathophysiology of all cardiomyopathies is a series of progressive events that culminate in impaired cardiac output.
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