The parents of a 2-year-old child who sustained severe head trauma from falling out a second-story window are arguing in the pediatric intensive-care unit (PICU) and are blaming each other for the child's accident
The best nursing diagnosis for this family is
1. Parental Role Conflict related toprotecting the child.
2. Hopelessness related to the child'sdeteriorating condition.
3. Anxiety related to the critical-careunit environment.
4. Family Coping:Compromised,relatedto the child's critical Injury.
Answer:4
Rationale: The parents are displaying ineffective coping behaviors as a family. Parental Role Conflict does not refer to the parents'argument in the PICU,but means a parent is conflicted or confused about some aspect of the parental role. Each parent may be experiencing hopelessness,frustration,and anxiety,but they are not coping well as a family unit.
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