A client has recently immigrated without his family. The client reports that he cannot find a job and has no friends here. The client reports that without his family he doesn't know who he really is and everything around him is different. Which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate?

Answer: Altered personal identity related to the new environment and separation from family.

Explanation: Each of us seeks to know our personal identity and where and how we fit into the scheme of things so that we can make sense of our lives and plan for the future ... Whereas we are Kenyan South Asians, we are not a monolithic community with an organised leadership. We are a conglomeration of many diverse communities, languages, religions and customs. self is the subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts while identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.