The Ultimate Guide to Nursing Diagnosis
A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes.
Fear
Fear: Response to perceived threat that is consciously recognized as danger.
Rape Trauma Syndrome
Rape-Trauma Syndrome: Sustained maladaptive response, violent sexual penetration against the victim's will and consent.
Hopelessness
Hopelessness: Subjective state in which an individual sees limited or no alternatives or personal choices available and is unable to mobilize energy on own behalf.
Ineffective Therapeutic Regimen Management
Ineffective Therapeutic Regimen Management: Pattern of regulating and integrating into daily living a program for treatment of illness and the sequelae of illness that is unsatisfactory for meeting specific health goals.
Hypothermia
Hypothermia: Body temperature below normal range.
Powerlessness
Powerlessness: Perception that one's own action will not significantly affect an outcome; a perceived lack of control over a current situation or immediate happening.
Caregiver Role Strain
Caregiver Role Strain: Difficulty in performing family caregiver role.
Acute Confusion
Acute Confusion: Abrupt onset of a cluster of global, transient changes and disturbances in attention, cognition, psychomotor activity, level of consciousness, or the sleep/wake cycle.
Impaired Oral Mucous Membrane
Impaired Oral Mucous Membrane: Disruption of the lips and/or soft tissue of the oral cavity.
