The nurse has evaluated a client's response to interventions that are based on the client's genetic profile. What should the nurse do next?
1. Consider publishing the results of these interventions.
2. Generalize the results to care of other clients with similar genetic profiles.
3. Make changes to the client's plan of care based on this evaluation.
4. Plan to reassess the client's condition at a specific point in time.
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Rationale 1: This is not the next step. The nurse may or may not have material or consent to publish results.
Rationale 2: Generalization of care takes analysis of much more data than is generated by one case.
Rationale 3: The next step in the nursing process is to make changes in the client's plan of care.
Rationale 4: This intervention is part of the change that would be made in the plan of care, but is only part of what may be required.
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