The nursing student submits a care plan to the nursing instructor for a review prior to implementing the nursing interventions. Which of the following nursing diagnostic statements is written incorrectly?
a. Ineffective coping related to inadequate support systems as evidenced by patient's verbalization, "I don't have any friends or family in town. I just moved here a week ago."
b. Activity intolerance related to immobility as manifested by shortness of breath and patient's verbalization of fatigue.
c. Insomnia and knowledge deficit related to stress as evidenced by patient report of difficulty sleeping and lack of energy.
d. Self-care deficit bathing related to upper extremity weakness as manifested by inability to wash body.
ANS: C
Nurses must be careful when formulating nursing diagnoses. A variety of errors may occur related to clustering of unrelated data, selecting erroneous data, using medical diagnoses in the nursing diagnosis statement, and identifying multiple problems within one diagnostic statement. The student includes two separate nursing diagnostic labels in one statement.
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