diagnosis Flashcards
history of diagnosis
introduced in 1950
types of diagnosis
actual
risk
health promotion
actual diagnosis
describes human responses to health conditions or life processes
risk diagnosis
describes human responses to health conditions/life processes that may develop
health promotion diagnosis
clinical judgement of motivation, desire, and readiness to enhance well-being and actualize human health potential
diagnostic process requires you to use critical thinking to
helps be thorough, comprehensive and accurate
diagnostic reasoning
involves using the assessment data gathered about a patient to logically explain a clinical judgment
data clustering
set of cues, the signs and symptoms gathered during assessment
compared with standards to reach a conclusion
each clinical criterion
objective or subjective sign ,symptom, or risk factor that will lead to conclusion
a related factor
allows you to individualize a nursing diagnosis for specific patient
nursing diagnostic statement
provides a precise definition of a patients problem
allows nurses to communicate
distinguishes the nurses role from doctor
helps nurses focus on the scope of nursing
formulating diagnosis
select correct labels
move from general to specific information
absence of certain characteristics suggests you reject a diagnosis under consideration
related factors
condition, historical factor or causative event
allows you to individualize a diagnosis for a specific patient
concept mapping
visual representation of a patients nursing diagnosis and their relationships with one another
diagnostic error occur during
data collection
interpretation and analysis of data
clustering
diagnostic statement
