Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle

Exercise 2

You are conducting a health assessment of an older adult man who has recentlymoved to an assisted living facility owing to his worsening dementia. His current dietconsists of high fat and carbohydrate foods, high sodium intake, and minimalnonstarchy vegetable consumption. He does not exercise and has smoked one pack ofcigarettes a day since he was in his early 20s.Generate a list of possible nursingdiagnoses for this patient.Identify the nursing interventions that would be mostappropriate for each of the possible nursing diagnoses and evaluation criteria forthese interventions.