diagnosis

Nursing Diagnosis:
A statement that describes actual or potential health  problems that can be prevented or resolved by independent 
nursing intervention

NANDA Definition: (North America Nursing Diagnosis
Associate)
-Nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual 
and potential health problems/life processes.

-Nursing Diagnosis “provides the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable”


Difference Between Nursing and Medical  Diagnosis 
Nursing Diagnosis- statement used to
describe the client’s actual or potential response to a health problem that a nurse is licensed and competent to treat i.e.-Impaired skin integrity, Risk
for Infection, etc.

Medical Diagnosis-physician’s clinical
judgment of the disease- i.e. diabetes mellitus, give insulin, 1800 caloric diet and moderate exercise.

Diagnosis is the second phase of the
nursing process.
- Analyze data
- Identify health problem and risk.
- Identify the characteristic of nursing problem.
- state nursing diagnosis in concise way and precisely


It contains three parts:
Problem:
1) Identifies unhealthy response
2) Indicates what should change

Etiology:
1) Identifies causative or contributing factors
2-suggests nursing interventions

Sign and symptom: redness, cyanosis, loss of appetite.

It called PES system.

Example:
problem
Etiology
Sign
Ex: Anxiety related to Fear of death manifested by patient
verbalization.
Ex: Activity intolerance related to obesity manifested by
body weight 140 KG.