After completing an assessment, the nurse identifies the nursing diagnosis Decisional Conflict related to unclear personal values as evidenced by vacillating between alternate choices
The nurse will be able to choose intervention strategies based on this diagnostic statement because interventions should be directed at what?
A) Ameliorating the related factors of the diagnosis
B) Identifying the defining characteristics of the diagnosis
C) Identifying wise decisions for the client
D) Giving sound advice to the client
Ans: A
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After establishing behavioral outcomes, nurses select appropriate nursing actions, or interventions, to help clients achieve them. A wide array of nursing interventions, many of them evidence based, exists. The purpose of interventions is to address the related factors of the diagnosis.
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