A client has inadequate resources and impairment of personal support systems. Which nursing diagnosis would apply to this patient?
1. Noncompliance
2. Deficient knowledge
3. Ineffective health maintenance
4. Health-seeking behavior
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Defining characteristics for ineffective health maintenance includes impairment of personal support systems, observed inability to take responsibility for meeting basic health practices, demonstrated lack of knowledge, failure to recognize important symptoms reflective to altered health status, lack of health-seeking behaviors, and inadequate resources. Inadequate resources and impairment of personal support systems would not support the nursing diagnoses of Noncompliance, Deficient Knowledge, or Health-Seeking Behavior.
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