The nurse is making a home visit to an older adult who has severe rheumatoid arthritis with flexion contractures of all four extremities. She is confined to bed. What nursing diagnosis is appropriate in relation to safety?
a. Risk for Poisoning c. Risk for Trauma
b. Risk for Suffocation d. Risk for Disuse Syn-drome
D
Risk for Disuse Syndrome applies to a patient at risk for the deterioration of body or body systems as the result of prescribed or unavoidable musculoskeletal inactivity. There is no evidence to support that this patient would be at risk for poisoning, suffocation, or trauma.
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