The nursing diagnosis of "risk for injury: falls related to loss of coordination and equilibrium" is most appropriate for the client with a disorder of which area of the central nervous system?
a. Cerebrum
b. Cerebellum
c. Medulla oblongata
d. Spinal cord
ANS: B
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