A nursing diagnosis is a clinical diagnosis made by a registered nurse which, unlike a MD's diagnosis, does not cover the patient's medical condition, but the patient's response to the medical condition.
Patients generally have multiple nursing diagnoses covering everything from their physical well-being through their psychosocial well-being to the well-being of their family and caregivers. These diagnoses must cover problems that the nurse can treat independently of the MD. A complete nursing diagnosis is written in the format problem related to cause of problem as evidenced by symptoms of problem. An example of such a nursing diagnosis would be Impaired gas exchange related to excessive secretions as evidenced by O2 saturation of 86%.
NANDA, the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, has an approved list of nursing diagnoses which may be used in North America. There is also an international association attempting to create a list of nursing diagnoses which will hopefully become universal at some point in the future.
The current (2003-2004) North American list of approved nursing diagnoses is:
- Activity alteration
- Activity intolerance
- Activity intolerance risk
- Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) alteration
- Acute pain
- Adjustment impairment
- Adolescent behavior alteration
- Adult behavior alteration
- Airway clearance impairment
- Alcohol abuse
- Anticipatory grieving
- Anxiety
- Aspiration risk
- Auditory alteration
- Autonomic dysreflexia
- Bathing/hygiene deficit
- Blood pressure alteration
- Body image disturbance
- Body nutrition deficit
- Body nutrition deficit risk
- Body nutrition excess
- Body nutrition excess risk
- Bowel elimination alteration
- Bowel incontinence
- Breast feeding impairment
- Breathing pattern impairment
- Cardiac alteration
- Cardiovascular alteration
- Caregiver role strain
- Cerebral alteration
- Child behavior alteration
- Chronic low self-esteem disturbance
- Chronic pain
- Colonic constipation
- Comfort alteration
- Communication impairment
- Community coping impairment
- Compromised family coping
- Confusion
- Contraceptive risk
- Failure to thrive
- Family coping impairment
- Family process alteration
- Fatigue
- Fear
- Fecal impaction
- Feeding deficit
- Fertility risk
- Fluid volume alteration
- Fluid volume deficit
- Fluid volume deficit risk
- Fluid volume excess
- Fluid volume excess risk
- Functional urinary incontinence
- Health maintenance alteration
- Health seeking behavior alteration
- Home maintenance alteration
- Hopelessness
- Hyperthermia
- Hypothermia
- Immunologic alteration
- Individual coping impairment
- Infant behavior alteration
- Infant feeding pattern impairment
- Infection risk
- Infection unspecified
- Infertility risk
- Injury risk
- Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) alteration
- Intracranial adaptive capacity impairment
- Kinesthetic alteration
- Knowledge deficit
- Knowledge deficit of diagnostic test
- Knowledge deficit of dietary regimen
- Knowledge deficit of disease process
- Knowledge deficit of fluid volume
- Knowledge deficit of medication regimen
- Knowledge deficit of safety precautions
- Knowledge deficit of therapeutic regimen
- Nausea
- Newborn behavior alteration
- Noncompliance
- Noncompliance of diagnostic test
- Noncompliance of dietary regimen
- Noncompliance of fluid volume
- Noncompliance of medication regimen
- Noncompliance of safety precautions
- Noncompliance of therapeutic regimen
- Nutrition alteration
- Older adult behavior alteration
- Olfactory alteration
- Oral mucous membranes impairment
- Parental role conflict
- Parenting alteration
- Perceived constipation
- Perinatal risk
- Perioperative injury risk
- Perioperative positioning injury
- Peripheral alteration
- Personal identity disturbance
- Physical mobility impairment
- Physical regulation alteration
- Poisoning risk
- Polypharmacy
- Postpartum risk
- Post-trauma response
- Powerlessness
- Pregnancy risk
- Protection alteration
- Self care deficit
- Self concept alteration
- Self mutilation risk
- Sensory perceptual alteration
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality patterns alteration
- Situational self-esteem disturbance
- Skin integrity impairment
- Skin integrity impairment risk
- Skin incision
- Sleep deprivation
- Sleep pattern disturbance
- Social interaction alteration
- Social isolation
- Socialization alteration
- Spiritual distress
- Spiritual state alteration
- Stress urinary incontinence
- Substance abuse
- Suffocation risk
- Suicide risk
- Surgical recovery delay
- Swallowing impairment
- Tactile alteration
- Thermoregulation impairment
- Tissue integrity alteration
- Tissue perfusion alteration
- Tobacco abuse
- Tilting deficit
- Total urinary incontinence
- Thought processes alteration
- Trauma risk
- Unilateral neglect
- Unspecified constipation
- Unspecified pain
- Urinary elimination alteration
- Urinary retention
- Urge urinary incontinence
- Ventilatory weaning impairment
- Verbal impairment
- Violence risk
- Visual alteration
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