The nurse has drafted a nursing diagnosis of Imbalanced Nutrition: More Than Body Requirements in the care of moderately obese client. How should the nurse proceed after writing this diagnosis?
A) Validate the nursing diagnosis
B) Identify potential complications
C) Cross-reference the nursing diagnosis with medical diagnoses
D) Modify interventions based on the diagnosis
Ans: A
After writing a nursing diagnosis, it is important to verify and validate the diagnosis. This action should precede the modification of the client's care. Nursing diagnoses do not always correlate with medical diagnoses and not every nursing diagnosis is accompanied by potential complications.
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