The client who has been hospitalized for 3 weeks following a severe motor vehicle crash tells the nurse that spirituality and spiritual matters mean a great deal more now than before the incident
What nursing diagnosis would the nurse add to this client's care plan?
What will be an ideal response?
Correct Answer: Readiness for Enhanced Spiritual Well-Being
Rationale : Readiness for Enhanced Spiritual Well-Being is a NANDA-approved wellness diagnosis that reflects the client's ability to "experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through a person's connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, or a power greater than oneself" (NANDA, 2003).
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