1. It predicts the prognosis
  2. It aids in quality of care to meet the client's needs
  3. It studies the cause and effect of the illness
  4.  It identifies the disease
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Option 2 : It aids in quality of care to meet the client's needs

Concept:

  • Nursing Diagnosis plays an important role to provide quality care to the patients.
  • Nursing Diagnosis is a part of Nursing Process which is “a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health problems and life processes"
  • Nursing Diagnosis is an approach of a nurse in order to find out the secondary problems the patient is facing apart from the actual diagnosis 
    • For example -> A patient is admitted for the complete femur fracture , The pain experienced by patient is the cause of discomfort and is the secondary problem 
    • Similarly the fever is also evident. 

Explanation:

  • Nursing diagnosis plays an important role in providing the holistic care to the patient, it helps a nurse to assess the patient in all the dimensions and also aids in proving a a complete care in all the dimensions of health, and provide a base for the nursing interventions.
  • Nursing diagnosis is completely different from the medical diagnosis and it is initiated by the nurses only.

 Types of Nursing Diagnosis

  • Based on actual or the Problem-Focused
  • Risk based
  • Health Promotion
  • Syndrome or based on group of Symptoms
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