Nursing Diagnosis

Helps identify nursing priorities

A nursing diagnosis (NDx) may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment concerning human response to health conditions/life processes, or a vulnerability for that response, by an individual, family, group, or community. A nursing diagnosis provides the basis for the selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse has accountability. Nursing diagnoses are developed based on data obtained during the nursing assessment and enable the nurse to develop the care plan.

Activity Intolerance: Insufficient physiologic or psychological energy to endure or complete required or desired daily activities.

Acute Confusion: Abrupt onset of a cluster of global, transient changes and disturbances in attention, cognition, psychomotor activity, level of consciousness, or the sleep/wake cycle.

Acute Pain: Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage; sudden or slow onset of any intensity from mild to severe with an anticipated or predictable end and a duration of less than 6 months.

Anxiety: Vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread accompanied by an autonomic response.

Bowel Incontinence: Change in normal bowel habits characterized by involuntary passage of stool.

Caregiver Role Strain: Difficulty in performing family caregiver role.

Chronic Confusion: An irreversible, long-standing, and/or progressive deterioration of intellect and personality characterized by decreased ability to interpret environmental stimuli, decreased capacity for intellectual thought processes, and manifested by disturbances of memory, orientation, and behavior.

Chronic Pain: Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage…a duration of greater than 6 months.

Constipation: Decrease in normal frequency of defecation accompanied by difficult or incomplete passage of stool and/or passage of excessively hard, dry stool.

Decreased Cardiac Output: Inadequate blood pumped by the heart to meet the metabolic demands of the body.

Deficient Fluid Volume: Decreased intravascular, interstitial, and/or intracellular fluid. This refers to dehydration, water loss alone without change in sodium.

Deficient Knowledge: Absence or deficiency of cognitive information related to specific topic.

Diarrhea: This nursing diagnosis is defined as passage of loose, unformed stools.

Disturbed Body Image: Confusion in mental picture of one’s physical self.

Disturbed Thought Processes: The state in which an individual experiences a disruption in such mental activities as conscious thought, reality orientation, problem solving, judgment, and comprehension related to coping, personality, and/or mental disorder.

This Application contain a full guide on nursing diagnosis.

Excess Fluid Volume

Fatigue

Fear

Grieving

Hopelessness

Hypothermia

Imbalanced Nutrition

Imbalanced Nutrition

Impaired Gas Exchange

Impaired Oral Mucous Membrane

Impaired Physical Mobility

Impaired Swallowing

Impaired Tissue (Skin) Integrity

Insomnia and many more.