Chapter 17: Nursing Diagnosis Flashcards
Judgment that is clinically validated by the presence of major defining characteristics. This is defined as?
Actual nursing diagnosis
Objective or subjective sign, symptom, or risk factor that when analyzed with other criteria leads to diagnostic conclusions.
Clinical Criterion
Actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a patients status.
Collaborative Problem
Set of signs or symptoms that are grouped together in logical order.
Data Cluster
Clinical criteria that are observable and verifiable.
Defining Characteristics
Name of the nursing diagnosis as approved by NANDA.
Diagnostic Label
Study of all factors that may be involved in the development of a disease.
Etiology
Formal statement of an actual or potential health problem that nurses can legally and independently treat. The second step of the nursing process during which the patients actual and potential unhealthy responses to an illness or condition are identified.
Health promotion nursing diagnosis
Formal statement of the disease, entity, or illness made by the physician or health care provider.
Medical Diagnosis
North American Nursing Diagnosis Association Organized in 1973 it formally identifies, develops, and classifies nursing diagnoses.
NANDA International
Clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual and potential health problems or life processes that the nurse is licensed and competent and treat.
Nursing Diagnosis
Condition or event that accompanies or is linked with the patients health care problem.
Related Factor
Describes human responses to health conditions/ life processes that may develop in vulnerable individual , family, or community.
Risk Nursing Diagnosis
