A nurse is using Gordon's functional health patterns as an organizing framework for client assessment
The client has significant problems related to breathing for which the nurse identifies several nursing diagnostic labels, including ineffective breathing pattern and impaired gas exchange. The nurse understands that these nursing diagnoses would be organized under which functional pattern?
A) Activity-exercise
B) Nutritional-metabolic
C) Coping-stress tolerance
D) Congnitive-perceptual.
Ans: A
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Nursing diagnoses involving ineffective breathing pattern and impaired gas exchange would be organized under the pattern of activity-exercise. Nutritional-metabolic involves nursing diagnoses associate with weight, eating, fluids, and skin and tissue integrity. Coping-stress tolerance addresses coping, resilience, suicide, and self-mutilation. Cognitive-perceptual addresses pain, neurologic issues, impulse control, knowledge, and decision-making.
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