Chapter 12 Flashcards
Defining characteristics
Client signs and symptoms that must be present to validate a nursing diagnosis
Dependent functions
With regard to medical diagnoses, physician-prescribed therapies and treatments nurses are obligated to carry out.
Diagnosis
A statement or conclusion concerning the nature of some phenomenon
Diagnostic labels
Title used in writing a nursing diagnosis
Etiology
The causal relationship between a problem and its related or risk factors
Independent functions
Areas of health care unique to nursing, separate and distinct from medical management
Norm
An ideal or fixed standard
Nursing diagnosis
The nurse’s clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual and potential health problems
PES Format
The three essential components of nursing diagnostic statements including the terms describing the problem, the etiology of the problem, and the defining characteristics or cluster of signs and symptoms.
Qualifiers
Words that have been added to some NANDA labels to give additional meaning to the diagnostic statement.
Risk factors
Factors that cause a client to be vulnerable to developing a health problem
Risk nursing diagnosis
Clinical judgment that a problem does not exist, but the presence of risk factors indicates that a problem is likely to develop unless nurses intervene.
Standard
A generally accepted rule, model, pattern, or measure.
Syndrome diagnosis
A diagnosis that is associated with a cluster of other diagnosis
Taxonomy
A classification system or set of categories, such as nursing diagnoses, arranged on the basis of a single principle or consistent set of principles.
