The nurse is planning care for a client with conjunctivitis. Which client statement supports the nursing diagnosis of Risk for Altered Vision?
A) "I have had this infection for 3 days."
B) "My mother is blind from retinopathy."
C) "This is the fourth eye infection I have had in the last 6 months."
D) "I think I caught the infection from my child."
Answer: C
The concern for this client is the repeated infections that could be a chronic form of conjunctivitis that causes eventual blindness. Having the infection for 3 days is concerning but not as much as the potentially chronic form of the disease. Many adults catch "pink eye" from a child, but that is not usually the form that causes blindness. The client's mother has blindness from a source other than conjunctivitis.
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