Nursing Process-ch12: Diagnosing Flashcards
with regard to medical diagnoses, physician-prescribed therapies and treatments nurses are obligated to carry out
dependent functions
a statement or conclusion concerning the nature of some phenomenon
Diagnosis
title used in writing a nursing diagnosis; taken from the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) standardized taxonomy of terms
Diagnostic labels
the causal relationship between a problem and its related or risk factors
Etiology
areas of health care unique to nursing, separate and distinct from medical management
Independent functions
an ideal or fixed standard; an expected standard of behavior of group members
Norm
the nurse’s clinical judgement about individual, family, or community responses to actual and potential health problems/life processes to provide the basis for selecting nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable
Nursing Diagnosis
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
PES format
words that have been added to some NANDA labels to give additional meaning to the diagnostic statement
Qualifiers
factors that cause a client to be vulnerable to developing a health problem
Risk Factors
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
Risk nursing diagnosis
a diagnosis that is associated with a cluster of other diagnoses
Syndrome diagnosis
a classification system or set of categories, such as nursing diagnoses, arranged on the basis of a single principle or consistent set of principles
taxonomy
(NANDA) describes human responses to levels of wellness in an individual, family, or community that have a readiness for enhancement
Wellness diagnosis
client signs and symptoms that must be present to validate a nursing diagnosis
Defining Characteristics
