Using the Alfaro-LeFevre approach to prioritizing nursing diagnoses, which of these nursing diagnoses should the nurse focus on first?
a. Airway clearance, ineffective, related to excessive secretions
b. Anxiety related to unknown outcome of illness
c. Coping, individual, ineffective, related to loss of independence
d. Self-care deficit, feeding, related to decreased strength and endurance
A
Nursing diagnoses must then be prioritized. The diagnoses that address life-threatening physiologic problems (first-level priority problems), such as those affecting respiration, temperature regulation, or nutrition, are classified as higher priority. Each of the client's nursing diagnoses would then be prioritized according to its corresponding level of priority (second-level priority problems, such as mental status changes, acute pain, etc., and third-level priority problems, such as others that do not fit in the first two categories).
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