The home care nurse visits the client and determines that the client is unable to identify and implement psychomotor behavior to manage the therapeutic regimen. Which nursing diagnosis does the nurse use in the client plan of care?
1. Anxiety
2. Noncompliance
3. Deficient knowledge
4. Ineffective health maintenance
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4. The nurse uses Ineffective health maintenance in the client plan of care to resolve client inability to comply with the therapeutic regimen and to help client identify, manage, and procure resources to maintain or improve health.
1. The client does not exhibit clinical indicators of anxiety.
2. The client is not avoiding therapy but is not managing the therapeutic regimen.
3. The nurse addresses client knowledge deficits about managing the regimen by us-ing the health maintenance diagnosis.
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1. Shows changes in the frontotemporal cortical gray matter. 2. Shows changes in the hippocampal area. 3. Shows changes in the parietal area. 4. Is different from those without schizophrenia.
The nurse supports an older client's autonomy; which decision supports this ethical principle?
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A psychiatric–mental health nurse with decades of practice experience has noted that there has been an increased interest in the spiritual aspects of health. To which of the following reasons has this increased interest been attributed?
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