Diagnosing 12

Question 1

Diagnosis

Answer 1

Statement or conclusion regarding the nature of a phenomenon

Question 2

Etiology

Answer 2

Casual relationship between a problem and its repeated or risk factors

Question 3

Actual diagnosis

Answer 3

Client problem that is present at the time of the nursing assessment

Question 4

Health promotion diagnosis

Answer 4

Relates to clients preparedness to implement behaviors to improve their health condition

Question 5

Risk nursing diagnosis

Answer 5

Clinical judgement that a problem does not exist, but there are risk factors that one is likely to happen

Question 6

Syndrome diagnosis

Answer 6

Assigned by a nurses clinical judgement to describe a cluster of diagnoses that have similar interventions

Question 7

Qualifiers

Answer 7

Deficient, impaired, decreased, ineffective, compromised

Question 8

Defining characteristics

Answer 8

The cluster of signs and symptoms that indicate the presence of a particular diagnostic label

Question 9

PES format

Answer 9

Problem
Etiology
Signs and symptoms

Question 10

Taxonomy

Answer 10

Classification system or set of categories arranged based on a single principle or set of principles