The nursing instructor is discussing the care of the patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. The instructor points out to the class of nursing students that a priority parameter for the teaching plan for a newly diagnosed patient is what?
A) Teaching about refraining from sing lotions on the skin
B) Teaching about the disease itself
C) Teaching about nutrition
D) Teaching about renal calculi
Ans: B
Feedback: The most common nursing diagnoses include fatigue, impaired skin integrity, body image disturbance, and lack of knowledge for self-management decisions. The nurse would not tell the patient not to use lotions on the skin; nutrition is not a priority for the newly diagnosed and neither are renal calculi.
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