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3 Types of NANDA Nursing Diagnosis and 5 Nursing Process

NANDA Nursing Diagnosis and Nursing Process

A nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health problems / life processes. Nursing diagnoses provide the basic for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable (NANDA, 1992 p.5)

So the nursing diagnosis is a clinical decision about the response of individuals, families and communities about the actual or potential health problems, which is based on education and experience, nurses can identify and provide accountability for certain interventions to maintain, decrease, limit, preventive and change the client's health status (Carpenito, 2000; Gordon, 1976 & NANDA).

Nursing diagnosis is an integral part of the nursing process. This is a component of the analysis steps, where nurses identify individual responses to the problems of the actual and potential health. Some countries diagnose identified in nursing practice acts as a legal responsibility of a professional nurse. Nursing diagnoses provide basic instructions to provide definitive therapy where the nurse in charge in it (Kim et al, 1984).

Type of NANDA Nursing Diagnosis No 3, namely:
  1. Nursing Diagnosis - Actual is the current human response to their health or life processes are supported by a group of defining characteristics (signs and symptoms) and include factors related (etiology) which has a contribution to the development or maintenance of health.
  2. Nursing Diagnosis - Risk is showing human response that can appear in person or vulnerable groups and supported by risk factor that contributes to the increased susceptibility.
  3. Nursing Diagnosis - Wellness is outlining the human response to the level of health of individuals or groups that have the potential to improve health status high.
Nursing diagnosis is determined based on the analysis and interpretation of data obtained from the assessment of nursing clients. Nursing diagnosis provides a description of the problem or the client's health status real (actual) and is likely to occur, in which the solution can be done within the limits of authority of nurses.

Nursing diagnosis, as a part of the nursing process is also reflected in the standard practice of the ANA. These standards provide a broad basis to evaluate practice and reflect the recognition of human rights who receive nursing care (ANA, 1980).

Nursing process has been synonymous as a scientific method for the recipient nursing nursing actions are presented according to the five steps of the nursing process:
  1. Assessment. Establish a baseline of a client.
  2. Analysis. Identification and selection of client care needs maintenance purposes.
  3. Planning. To plan a strategy to achieve the goals set for client care.
  4. Implementation. Initiate and complete the actions necessary to achieve the objectives that have been determined.
  5. Evaluation. Determine how far the goals of nursing that have been achieved.
By following these five steps, nurses will have a systematic framework for making decisions and solving problems in the implementation of nursing care.

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