Chapter 17 Nursing Diagnosis

Question 1

Identification of a disease condition

Answer 1

Medical diagnosis

Question 2

Describe human responses to health conditions or life process that exit in a individual, family or community

Answer 2

Actual nursing diagnosis

Question 3

Human responses to health conditions that may possible develop in a vulnerable individual, family or community

Answer 3

Risk nursing diagnosis

Question 4

Desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential.

Answer 4

Health nursing diagnosis

Question 5

Set of signs and symptoms

Answer 5

Data Cluster

Question 6

Subjective signs, symptoms or risk factors

Answer 6

Clinical criteria

Question 7

Process of Identifying health problems

Answer 7

1. Analize cluster of data
2. Interpret the information
3. Select appropiate nursing diagnosis

Question 8

Clinical criteria that are observable and verifiable.

Answer 8

Defining characteristics

Question 9

Condition, historical factor, or etiology that gives a context for defining characteristics and shows the relation.

Answer 9

Related factors

Question 10

Name of the diagnosis as approved by NANDA.

Answer 10

Diagnostic labels

Question 11

Cause of the nursing diagnosis within the domain of nursing practice.

Answer 11

Etiology

Question 12

PES

Answer 12

P - Problem
E - Etiology or related factor
S - Symptoms or defining characteristics

Question 13

Lack of knowledge, innacurate data, mising data, disorganization

Answer 13

Error in collection data

Question 14

Identification of disease condition based on signs/symptoms, history, and diagnostics

Answer 14

Medical diagnosis

Question 15

Must be licensed to treat diseases

Answer 15

Medical diagnosis

Question 16

Clinical judgment about individual, family

or community responses to actual and potential health problems or life processes

Answer 16

Nursing diagnosis

Question 17

Judgment is derived based on data collected during the nursing assessment

Answer 17

Nursing diagnosis

Question 18

Advantages of nursing diagnoses

Answer 18

1. Facilitates individualized care
2. Promotes professional accountability/autonomy
3. Provides an effective vehicle for communication
4. Helps to determine assessment parameters

Question 19

Innacurate interpretation, failure to consider conflicting cues, Insufficient numbr of cues, invalid cues, failure to consider cultural influences.

Answer 19

Error in interpretation and analysis

Question 20

Premature or early closure

Answer 20

Error in data clustered

Question 21

Wrong label, evidences exist s for another diagnosis, failure to validate with patient

Answer 21

Error in diagnostic labeling

Question 22

Guidelines to reduce errors when formulating diagnostic statement

Answer 22

• Identify the patient reponse not the medical diagnosis.
• Identify a NANDA diagnostic statement rather than the symptom.
• Make professional rather than prejudicial judgment.
• Identify the patient response to the equipment rather thatn the equipment itself.