What is the nursing diagnosis?

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Nursing diagnosis is a kind of clinical judgment about the reaction of individual, family or community to existing or potential health problems and life process. It is the basis for nurses to choose nursing measures to achieve the expected results. These results should be responsible by nurses. What is the nursing diagnosis?

What is the nursing diagnosis?

To describe the health status (existing or potential) of nursing objects in concise words, it mainly describes the changes of health status with specific words such as "change", "obstacle", "lack" and "ineffectiveness", but it can not indicate the degree of change. It is a clear and correct expression of the name. In order to express the significance of diagnosis and the difference with other diagnosis simply and clearly.

It is the clinical standard to make the diagnosis. These criteria are a sign, or a symptom, or a group of symptoms and signs, and may also be risk factors. These criteria are the reactions actively expressed or observed by individuals or groups. This can be subjective or objective. There are two kinds of subjective data and objective data: primary data, which must appear when the diagnosis is absent; Secondary data may appear at the time of diagnosis.

Refers to clinical or personal health status changes or other problems. These are usually related to nursing diagnosis. Due to the natural differences and uniqueness of human individuals, the related factors vary with different diseases. The related factors can be pathophysiological (biological or spiritual), psychological, treatment-related, situational (environmental or personal), mature (age).

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It is worth noting that the problems that are dangerous but have not yet emerged are not necessarily problems that should not be considered first. Such as leukemia patients during chemotherapy should first consider the patient has "the risk of infection.". It should also be noted that the primary and secondary order changes with the development of the disease in the whole process of the disease.