What is wrong with the following diagnostic statement? "Impaired Physical Mobility related to laziness and not having appropriate shoes." The statement is:

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"Lazy" implies criticism of the client and therefore is judgmental.There need to be several (certainly more than two)etiological factors for the statement to be complex.There is no blame implied or harm resulting,so the statement is not legally questionable.There is no minimum "amount" of supportive data for a diagnosis and the stated etiology related to the nursing diagnosis.No supportive data are given in the stem of the question,so you could not choose "lack of data" as the best answer because all the options lack data as far as you can tell from the information given in the question.In addition,it is not necessary to include supportive data in the diagnostic statement (although some do prefer to use AMB and include defining characteristics).

What Is Wrong with the Following Diagnostic Statement? "Impaired Physical