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Prioritization and Justification: Nursing Diagnosis Actual Risk Justification

The document prioritizes 7 nursing diagnoses for a patient undergoing surgery for breast cancer. Anxiety related to the upcoming surgery is given the highest priority as it falls under the safety and security need in Maslow's hierarchy. Risk for infection is the second highest priority given the patient's surgery and ongoing disease process. Acute pain, fatigue, self-care deficit, and impaired body image are also identified as problems but considered less immediate priorities than anxiety and infection risk. Knowledge deficit is given the lowest priority as knowledge is at the top of Maslow's hierarchy.

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Prioritization and Justification: Nursing Diagnosis Actual Risk Justification

The document prioritizes 7 nursing diagnoses for a patient undergoing surgery for breast cancer. Anxiety related to the upcoming surgery is given the highest priority as it falls under the safety and security need in Maslow's hierarchy. Risk for infection is the second highest priority given the patient's surgery and ongoing disease process. Acute pain, fatigue, self-care deficit, and impaired body image are also identified as problems but considered less immediate priorities than anxiety and infection risk. Knowledge deficit is given the lowest priority as knowledge is at the top of Maslow's hierarchy.

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PRIORITIZATION AND JUSTIFICATION

NURSING

ACTUAL

RISK

JUSTIFICATION

DIAGNOSIS
Fear of the unknown or also called
anxiety is a vital part in taking care of the
1. Anxiety related

patient and this problem can be seen in

to upcoming

Maslows hierarchy which is in the 2nd

surgery

part which is the safety and security

secondary to

having the absence of safety and security

stage 1 breast

will impede the patient in attaining self-

cancer

actualization but considering this will


only be categorized as not the main
problem but will appear in the later.
Is prioritized as the second highest
problem. According to Maslows hierarchy
of needs infection falls under safety and
security, having the absence of safety and

2. Risk for

security will impede the patient in

infection related

attaining self-actualization but

to ongoing

considering this will only be categorized

disease process

as not the main problem but will appear


in the later. Though it is a risk it is given
a highest prioritization since the patient
will undergo surgery and infection is
always present.
Pain is considered as the fifth vital sign

3. Acute pain
related to
ongoing disease
process

and can be a main factor affecting various


problems which can be linked to activity
since the patient rated the pain as mild
pain this was considered as a problem
that can be solved in the later part of
patient care.
Fatigue is caused by exhaustion of the

4. Fatigue related
to ongoing
disease process
5. Self-care deficit

body or body weakness and can be seen


in the 2nd level of Maslows hierarchy of
need that is having no fulfillment of the
physiologic need which is in the activity
category.
We also need to address this problem in

related to body

order to perform her usual activities of

weakness

daily living. Activity is also a physiologic


need that we need to provide.

PRIORITIZATION AND JUSTIFICATION


In Safety and security of the body which
6. Impaired body

is Maslows 2nd hierarchy of needs being

image related to

not satisfied of the body will brought

presence of

about anxiety which will also cause more

breast lesions

other underlying problems.


Knowledge is categorized as one of the
highest needs of man and is at the top of
Maslows Hierarchy of needs that enables

7. Knowledge

the individual to reach self-actualization,

Deficit

thus, is considered as the least prioritized


problem

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