During a home visit, the nurse learns that the client ensures a daily bowel movement with the help of laxatives. The client feels that deviation from a bowel movement every day is unhealthy. Which nursing diagnosis would the nurse most likely identify?
A) Constipation
B) Perceived constipation
C) Risk of constipation
D) Bowel incontinence
Ans: B
The most appropriate nursing diagnosis for the client is perceived constipation, because the client has made a self-diagnosis of constipation and ensures a daily bowel movement through the abuse of laxatives. Constipation may be diagnosed in a client if there is a decrease in the normal frequency of defecation accompanied by a difficult or incomplete passage of stool (and/or passage of excessively hard, dry stool). Risk of constipation can be diagnosed if a client exhibits factors that predispose him or her for developing constipation. Bowel incontinence would be indicated if the client was experiencing an involuntary passage of stool.
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