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A: Sample NANDA-I Diagnoses

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    Table A contains commonly used NANDA-I nursing diagnoses categorized by domain. Many of these concepts will be further discussed in various chapters of this book. Nursing students may use Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns framework to cluster assessment data by domain and then select appropriate NANDA-I nursing diagnoses. For more information, refer to a nursing care planning resource.

    Table A Sample NANDA-I Diagnoses by Domain[1]

    Domain Class & Nursing Diagnosis
    Health Promotion Health Awareness
    • Sedentary lifestyle

    Health Management

    • Frail elderly syndrome
    • Ineffective health maintenance
    Nutrition Ingestion
    • Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements
    • Readiness for enhanced nutrition
    • Impaired swallowing

    Metabolism

    • Risk for unstable blood glucose level

    Hydration

    • Risk for electrolyte imbalance
    • Deficient fluid volume
    • Excess fluid volume
    • Risk for imbalanced fluid volume
    Elimination and Exchange Urinary function
    • Impaired urinary elimination
    • Functional urinary incontinence
    • Overflow urinary incontinence
    • Reflex urinary incontinence
    • Stress urinary incontinence
    • Urge urinary incontinence
    • Urinary retention

    Gastrointestinal function

    • Constipation
    • Risk for constipation
    • Diarrhea
    • Bowel incontinence

    Respiratory function

    • Impaired gas exchange
    Activity/Rest Sleep/Rest
    • Insomnia
    • Disturbed sleep pattern

    Activity/Rest

    • Risk for disuse syndrome
    • Impaired bed mobility
    • Impaired physical mobility
    • Impaired wheelchair mobility
    • Impaired sitting
    • Impaired standing
    • Impaired transfer ability
    • Impaired walking

    Energy balance

    • Fatigue
    • Wandering

    Cardiovascular/Pulmonary responses

    • Activity intolerance
    • Ineffective breathing pattern
    • Decreased cardiac output
    • Ineffective peripheral tissue perfusion

    Self-care

    • Bathing self-care deficit
    • Dressing self-care deficit
    • Feeding self-care deficit
    • Toileting self-care deficit
    Perception/Cognition Attention
    • Unilateral neglect

    Cognition

    • Acute confusion
    • Chronic confusion
    • Deficient knowledge
    • Readiness for enhanced knowledge
    • Impaired memory

    Communication

    • Readiness for enhanced communication
    • Impaired verbal communication
    Self-Perception Self-concept
    • Hopelessness
    • Readiness for enhanced self-concept

    Self-esteem

    • Chronic low self-esteem

    Body image

    • Disturbed body image
    Role Relationship Caregiving roles
    • Caregiver role strain
    • Risk for caregiver role strain

    Family relationships

    • Dysfunctional family processes

    Role performance

    • Impaired social interaction
    Sexuality Sexual function
    • Sexual dysfunction
    Coping/Stress Tolerance Post-trauma responses
    • Risk for relocation stress syndrome

    Coping responses

    • Anxiety
    • Ineffective coping
    • Death anxiety
    • Fear
    • Grieving
    • Complicated grieving
    • Powerlessness

    Neurobehavioral stress

    • Risk for autonomic dysreflexia
    Life Principles
    • Readiness for enhanced spiritual well-being
    • Decisional conflict
    • Spiritual distress
    Safety/Protection Infection
    • Risk for infection

    Physical injury

    • Ineffective airway clearance
    • Risk for aspiration
    • Risk for bleeding
    • Risk for falls
    • Risk for injury
    • Impaired dentition
    • Risk for pressure ulcer
    • Impaired skin integrity
    • Impaired tissue integrity

    Violence

    • Risk for suicide

    Environmental hazards

    • Risk for poisoning

    Defensive processes

    • Risk for allergy response

    Thermoregulation

    • Hyperthermia
    • Hypothermia
    Comfort Physical comfort
    • Impaired comfort
    • Nausea
    • Acute pain
    • Chronic pain

    Social comfort

    • Risk for loneliness
    Growth/Development
    • Risk for delayed development

     


    1. Herdman, T. H., & Kamitsuru, S. (Eds.). (2018). Nursing diagnoses: Definitions and classification, 2018-2020. Thieme Publishers New York.
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