Diagnosis

• Nursing Process


  • Nurses use critical thinking skills to interpret assessed data and identify client problems
  • Diagnosing involves analyzing data, identifying health problems, risks, and strengths, and formulating diagnostic statements about a patient's potential or actual health problem
  • More than one diagnosis is sometimes made for a single patient

  
• NANDA (North American Nursing Diagnosis Association)


  Defines a list of nursing diagnosis
• Nursing Diagnosis


  Consists of 3 parts: Problem, Etiology, Signs and Symptoms