NANDA Nursing Diagnosis List


Gordon’s functional health patterns is a method devised by Marjory Gordon to be used by the nurses in the nursing process to provide more comprehensive assessment of the client.

Below contains the list of nursing diagnoses approved by NANDA-I.

Health Perception and Management Pattern

  1. Contamination
  2. Disturbed energy field
  3. Effective therapeutic regimen management
  4. Health-seeking behaviors
  5. Ineffective community therapeutic regimen management
  6. Ineffective family therapeutic regimen management
  7. Ineffective health maintenance
  8. Ineffective protection
  9. Ineffective therapeutic regimen management
  10. Noncompliance
  11. Readiness for enhanced immunization status
  12. Readiness for enhanced therapeutic regimen management
  13. Risk for contamination
  14. Risk for falls
  15. Risk for infection
  16. Risk for injury (trauma)
  17. Risk for perioperative positioning injury
  18. Risk for poisoning
  19. Risk for suffocation
Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern
  1. Adult failure to thrive
  2. Deficient blood volume
  3. Effective breastfeeding
  4. Excess fluid volume
  5. Hyperthermia
  6. Hypothermia
  7. Imbalanced nutrition: more than body requirements
  8. Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements
  9. Imbalanced nutrition: risk for more than body requirements
  10. Impaired dentition
  11. Impaired oral mucous membrane
  12. Impaired skin integrity
  13. Impaired swallowing
  14. Impaired tissue integrity (specify type)
  15. Ineffective breastfeeding
  16. Ineffective infant feeding pattern
  17. Ineffective thermoregulation
  18. Interrupted breastfeeding
  19. Latex allergy response
  20. Nausea
  21. Readiness for enhanced fluid balance
  22. Readiness for enhanced nutrition
  23. Risk for aspiration
  24. Risk for deficient fluid volume
  25. Risk for imbalanced fluid volume
  26. Risk for imbalanced body temperature
  27. Risk for latex allergy response
  28. Risk for impaired liver function
  29. Risk for impaired skin integrity
  30. Risk for unstable blood glucose
Elimination Pattern
  1. Bowel incontinence
  2. Constipation
  3. Diarrhea
  4. Functional urinary incontinence
  5. Impaired urinary elimination
  6. Overflow urinary incontinence
  7. Perceived constipation
  8. Readiness for enhanced urinary elimination
  9. Reflex urinary incontinence
  10. Risk for constipation
  11. Risk for urge urinary incontinence
  12. Stress urinary incontinence
  13. Total urinary incontinence
  14. Urge urinary incontinence
  15. Urinary retention
Activity-Exercise Pattern
  1. Activity intolerance (specify)
  2. Autonomic dysreflexia
  3. Decreased cardiac output
  4. Decreased intracranial adaptive capacity
  5. Deficient diversional activity
  6. Delayed growth and development
  7. Delayed surgical recovery
  8. Disorganized infant behavior
  9. Dysfunctional ventilatory weaning response
  10. Fatigue
  11. Impaired spontaneous ventilation
  12. Impaired bed mobility
  13. Impaired gas exchange
  14. Impaired home maintenance
  15. Impaired physical mobility
  16. Impaired transfer ability
  17. Impaired walking
  18. Impaired wheelchair mobility
  19. Ineffective airway clearance
  20. Ineffective breathing pattern
  21. Ineffective tissue perfusion (specify)
  22. Readiness for enhanced organized infant behavior
  23. Risk for disproportionate growth
  24. Risk for activity intolerance
  25. Risk for autonomic dysreflexia
  26. Risk for disuse syndrome
  27. Risk for peripheral neurovascular dysfunction
  28. Risk for sudden infant death syndrome
  29. Sedentary lifestyle
  30. Self-care deficit (specify: bathing/hygiene, dressing/grooming, feeding, toileting)
  31. Wandering
Sleep-Rest Pattern
  1. Insomnia
  2. Readiness for enhanced sleep
  3. Sleep deprivation
Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern
  1. Acute confusion
  2. Acute pain
  3. Chronic confusion
  4. Chronic pain
  5. Decisional conflict (specify)
  6. Deficient knowledge (specify)
  7. Disturbed sensory perception (specify)
  8. Disturbed thought process
  9. Impaired environmental interpretation syndrome
  10. Impaired memory
  11. Readiness for enhanced comfort
  12. Readiness for enhanced decision making
  13. Readiness for enhanced knowledge
  14. Risk for acute confusion
  15. Unilateral neglect
Self-Perception and Self-Conception Pattern
  1. Anxiety
  2. Chronic low self-esteem
  3. Death anxiety
  4. Disturbed body image
  5. Disturbed personal identity
  6. Fear
  7. Hopelessness
  8. Powerlessness
  9. Readiness for enhanced hope
  10. Readiness for enhanced power
  11. Readiness for enhanced self-concept
  12. Risk for compromised human dignity
  13. Risk for loneliness
  14. Risk for self-directed violence
  15. Risk for powerlessness
  16. Risk for situational low self-esteem
  17. Situational low self-esteem
Role-Relationship Pattern
  1. Caregiver role strain
  2. Chronic sorrow
  3. Dysfunctional family process: alcoholism
  4. Impaired parenting
  5. Impaired social interaction
  6. Impaired verbal communication
  7. Ineffective role performance
  8. Interrupted family process
  9. Parental role conflict
  10. Readiness for enhanced communication
  11. Readiness for enhanced family processes
  12. Readiness for enhanced parenting
  13. Relocation stress syndrome
  14. Risk for caregiver role strain
  15. Risk for complicated grieving
  16. Risk for impaired parent/child attachment
  17. Risk for impaired parenting
  18. Risk for relocation stress syndrome
  19. Risk for other-directed violence
  20. Social dysfunction
Sexuality-Reproductive
  1. Ineffective sexuality pattern
  2. Rape-trauma syndrome
  3. Rape-trauma syndrome: compound reaction
  4. Rape-trauma syndrime: silent reaction
  5. Sexual dysfunction
Coping-Stress Tolerance Pattern
  1. Compound family coping
  2. Defensive coping
  3. Disabled family coping
  4. Ineffective community coping
  5. Ineffective coping
  6. Ineffective denial
  7. Post-trauma syndrome
  8. Readiness for enhanced community coping
  9. Readiness for enhanced coping
  10. Readiness for enhanced family coping
  11. Risk for self-mutilation
  12. Risk for suicide
  13. Risk for post-trauma syndrome
  14. Risk-prone health behaviors
  15. Self-mutilation
  16. Stress overload
Value-Belief Pattern
  1. Impaired religiosity
  2. Moral distress
  3. Readiness for enhanced religiosity
  4. Readiness for enhanced spiritual well-being
  5. Risk for impaired religiosity
  6. Risk for spiritual distress
  7. Spiritual distress
These were modified by Marjory Gordon on 2007, with permission.

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