A client has experienced a traumatic amputation and subsequent body image disturbance. In the record, nurse Janine documents the nursing diagnosis of body image disturbance related to changes in appearance secondary to:
a. chronic disease
b. severe trauma
c. loss of body part
d. loss of body function
Answer C. The client lost a limb. The most appropriate secondary cause is loss of body part. This will be a chronic condition, not necessarily a disease, but the most immediate cause of the body image disturbance is loss of body part. The body part was lost because of trauma, but using loss of body part is much more specific and immediately communicates to all other nurses the cause of the body image disturbance. There will be loss of body function as well that relates back to the loss of the body part.
a. chronic disease
b. severe trauma
c. loss of body part
d. loss of body function
Answer C. The client lost a limb. The most appropriate secondary cause is loss of body part. This will be a chronic condition, not necessarily a disease, but the most immediate cause of the body image disturbance is loss of body part. The body part was lost because of trauma, but using loss of body part is much more specific and immediately communicates to all other nurses the cause of the body image disturbance. There will be loss of body function as well that relates back to the loss of the body part.
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