The nurse has identified a number of risk nursing diagnoses in the care of an adolescent who has been admitted to the hospital for treatment of an eating disorder. These risk diagnoses indicate which of the following?
A) The client is more vulnerable to certain problems than other individuals would be.
B) The diagnoses present significant risks for the development of medical diagnoses.
C) The data necessary to make a definitive nursing diagnosis is absent.
D) The diagnosis has yet to be confirmed by another practitioner.
Ans: A
Risk nursing diagnoses are clinical judgments that an individual, family, or community is more vulnerable to develop the problem than others in the same or similar situation. They do not denote a particular link to medical diagnoses nor do they require independent confirmation. Missing data is associated with possible nursing diagnoses.
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