What Is a Nursing Diagnosis?

Nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about the response of an individual, family, or community to existing or potential health problems and life processes. It is the basis for nurses to choose nursing measures to achieve expected results. These results are the responsibility of the nurse.

Nursing diagnosis

Preface to Nursing Diagnostics

NANDA adopted a classification method based on Human ResPonse Patterns. The 128 nursing diagnoses of the human response pattern classification method are listed below: [1]

Nursing Diagnosis Exchange

(Exchanging)
Nutritional Disorders: Higher Than Body Requirements
Nutritional Disorders: Less Than Body Requirements
Malnutrition: Potentially higher than body requirements (Altered Nutrition: Potential for More Than Body Requirements)
Risk of infection (Risk for Infection)
Risk of altered body temperature (Risk for Altered Body Temperature)
Hypothermia (Hypothermia)
Hyperthermia (Hyperthermia)
Ineffective Thermoregulatlon
Dysre flexia
Constipation
Perceived Consttipation
Colonic Constipation
Diarrhea (Diarrhea)
Bowel incontinence
Urinary abnormalities (Altered Urinary Elimination)
Stress incontinence
Reflex Incontinence
Urge Incontinence
Functional Incontinence
1. total urinary incontinence
Urinary Retention (Urinary Retentron)
Changes in tissue perfusion volume (kidney, brain, heart and lung, gastrointestinal, peripheral blood vessels) (Altered Tissue Perfuslorl (Renal, Cereral, Cardlopulmonary Gastrolntestlnal, Peripheral))
Fluid Volume Excess
Fluid Volume Deficit
Danger of fluid deficiency (Risk for Fluid VolUme Deficit)
Decreased cardiac output (Deer. A. Ed CardlacouPu)
Impaired gas exchange (Imnaired Gas Exc5anse)
Inefecthe Airway Clearance
Ineffective Breathing Pattern
Inability to Sustain Spontaneous Ventilation
Ventilator dependence (Dysfunctional Ventilatory Weaning ResPonse (DVWR)
Risk of injury (Risk for Injury)
Risk of suffocation (Risk for Suffocation)
Risk of trauma (Risk for Trauma)
Risk of Aspiration
Altered Protection
Impaired tissue integrity (ImPaired Tissue Integrity)
Oral Mucosal Changes (Altered Oral Mucous Membrance)
Impaired Skin Integrity
Risk of impaired skin integrity (Risk for ImPaired Skin Integrity)
Decreased ability to regulate intracranial pressure (Decreased AdaPtive CaPacity Intracranial)
Energy Field Distubance

Nursing diagnosis communication

(Communicating)
Language Communication Impairment (impaired VerbalCommunlcatlon)

Nursing diagnosis relationship

(Relating)
Social Impairment (Impaired Soial Interatlon)
Social Isolition
There is danger of isolation (Risk for. Lonelines.)
Altered Role Performance
Alternated Parenting
Risk of parental incompetence (Risk for Altered Parenting)
Risk of changing parental attachment (Risk for Altered Parent / Infant / Child Att8Chffi6llt)
Sexual Dysfunction
Altered Family Process
Career Role Strain
Risk of Caregiver Role Strain
Altered Family Process: Alcoholism
Parent Role Conflict
Sexuality Patterns (Altered SexualityPatterns)

Nursing diagnostic value

(Valuing)
Spiritual Distress
Enhancing Mental Health: Potential for Enhance Spiritual Well-Belug

Nursing diagnostic options

(Choosing)
Individual Coping Ineffective
Impairment of adjustment (ImPaired Adjustment)
Defensive Coping
Defensive denial
Ineffective Family Coping: Disabling
Ineffective Family Coping: Compromised
Family Coping: Potential for Growth
Community Response: Potential for Enhanced Community CoPing
Ineffective Community Coping
Ineffective Management of Therapeutic Regimen (Indlidual)
Noncompliance (Specitfy)
Ineffective Management of Therapeutic Regimen: (Families)
Ineffective Management of Thera-peutic Regimen (Community)
Effective Management of Thera-peutic Regimen (Individual)
Decisional conflict (Specify)
Health Seeking Behaviors (Specity)

Nursing diagnostic activities

(Moving)
Impaired Physical Mobility
Risk of peripheral vascular and nerve dysfunction (Risk for PeriPheralNeurovas-cular Dysfunction)
Risk of perioperative trauma (Risk for Perloperatlve Positioning Injury)
Activity Intolerance
Tired (Fatigue)
Risk for Activity Intolerance
Sleep State Disturbance
Diversional Activity Deficit
Impaired Home Maintenance Management
Change in the ability to maintain health (Altered Health Maintenance)
Feeding Self Care Deficit
Dysphagia (Impaired Swallowing)
Ineffective Breast Feeding
Breastfeeding interrupted (Interrunted Breast1ceding)
Effective Breast feeding
Ineffective Infant Feeding Pattern
Bathing / Hygiene Self Care Deficit
Dressing / Grooming Self Care Deficit
Toileting Self Care Deficit
Growth and development (Altered Growth and Development)
Relocation Stress Syndrome
Risk of Disorganized Infant Behavior
Disorganized Infant Behavior
Potential for Disorganized Infant ganlzed Infantkhavlor

Nursing diagnostic perception

(Perceiving)
Body Imagse Disturbance
Self-esteem disorder (SolfEsteem disturbance)
Chronic Low Self Esteem
Situational Low Self Esteem
Personal Identity disturbance
Perceptual changes (specific) (seeing, hearing, movement, smell, touch, smell) (Sensory / Perceptual Alterations) (specify) (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetlc, Gustatory, Tao-tile, Olfactory)
Unilateral Neglect
Despair (Honelessness)
Powerlessness

Nursing diagnosis awareness

(Knowing)
Knowledge Deficit (Specify)
Disorientation (Impaired Environmental Interpretation)
Acute Confusion
Chronic Confusion
Altered Thought Processes
Memory Impairment (ImPaired Memory)

Nursing, diagnosis, feeling

(Feeling)
Pain
Chronic Pain
Dysfunctional Crievins
AnticiPatory Crieving
Risk of violence: Risk for Violence: Self-Directed or drected at Others
Risk of self-injury (Risk for Self-Mutilation)
Post-Trauma Response
Rape-Trauma Syndrome
Rape Trauma Syndrome: Repe-Trauma Syndrome: Compound Reaction
Rape-Trauma Syndrome: Silent
Anxiety
Fear

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