NURSING DIAGNOSES

APPENDIX B: 20072008 NANDA-APPROVED

Activity Intolerance Activity Intolerance, Risk for Airway Clearance, Ineffective Anxiety Anxiety, Death Aspiration, Risk for Attachment, Parent/Infant/Child, Risk for Impaired Autonomic Dysreflexia Autonomic Dysreflexia, Risk for Blood Glucose, Risk for Unstable Body Image, Disturbed Body Temperature: Imbalanced, Risk for Bowel Incontinence Breastfeeding, Effective Breastfeeding, Ineffective Breastfeeding, Interrupted Breathing Pattern, Ineffective Cardiac Output, Decreased Caregiver Role Strain Caregiver Role Strain, Risk for Comfort, Readiness for Enhanced Communication: Impaired, Verbal Communication, Readiness for Enhanced Confusion, Acute Confusion, Acute, Risk for Confusion, Chronic Constipation Constipation, Perceived Constipation, Risk for Contamination Contamination, Risk for Coping: Community, Ineffective Coping: Community, Readiness for Enhanced Coping, Defensive Coping: Family, Compromised Coping: Family, Disabled Coping: Family, Readiness for Enhanced Coping (Individual), Readiness for Enhanced Coping, Ineffective Decisional Conflict Decision Making, Readiness for Enhanced Denial, Ineffective Dentition, Impaired Development: Delayed, Risk for Diarrhea Disuse Syndrome, Risk for Diversional Activity, Deficient Energy Field, Disturbed Environmental Interpretation Syndrome, Impaired Failure to Thrive, Adult Falls, Risk for Family Processes, Dysfunctional: Alcoholism Family Processes, Interrupted Family Processes, Readiness for Enhanced Fatigue Fear Fluid Balance, Readiness for Enhanced Fluid Volume, Deficient Fluid Volume, Deficient, Risk for Fluid Volume, Excess Fluid Volume, Imbalanced, Risk for Gas Exchange, Impaired Grieving Grieving, Complicated Grieving, Risk for Complicated Growth, Disproportionate, Risk for Growth and Development, Delayed Health Behavior, Risk-Prone

Health Maintenance, Ineffective Health-Seeking Behaviors (Specify) Home Maintenance, Impaired Hope, Readiness for Enhanced Hopelessness Human Dignity, Risk for Compromised Hyperthermia Hypothermia Immunization Status, Readiness for Enhanced Infant Behavior, Disorganized Infant Behavior: Disorganized, Risk for Infant Behavior: Organized, Readiness for Enhanced Infant Feeding Pattern, Ineffective Infection, Risk for Injury, Risk for Insomnia Intracranial Adaptive Capacity, Decreased Knowledge, Deficient (Specify) Knowledge (Specify), Readiness for Enhanced Latex Allergy Response Latex Allergy Response, Risk for Liver Function, Impaired, Risk for Loneliness, Risk for Memory, Impaired Mobility: Bed, Impaired Mobility: Physical, Impaired Mobility: Wheelchair, Impaired Moral Distress Nausea Neurovascular Dysfunction: Peripheral, Risk for Noncompliance (Specify) Nutrition, Imbalanced: Less than Body Requirements Nutrition, Imbalanced: More than Body Requirements Nutrition, Imbalanced: More than Body Requirements, Risk for Nutrition, Readiness for Enhanced Oral Mucous Membrane, Impaired Pain, Acute Pain, Chronic Parenting, Impaired Parenting, Readiness for Enhanced Parenting, Risk for Impaired Perioperative Positioning Injury, Risk for Personal Identity, Disturbed Poisoning, Risk for Post-Trauma Syndrome Post-Trauma Syndrome, Risk for Power, Readiness for Enhanced Powerlessness Powerlessness, Risk for Protection, Ineffective Rape-Trauma Syndrome Rape-Trauma Syndrome: Compound Reaction Rape-Trauma Syndrome: Silent Reaction Religiosity, Impaired Religiosity, Readiness for Enhanced Religiosity, Risk for Impaired Relocation Stress Syndrome Relocation Stress Syndrome, Risk for Role Conflict, Parental Role Performance, Ineffective Sedentary Lifestyle Self-Care, Readiness for Enhanced Self-Care Deficit: Bathing/Hygiene Self-Care Deficit: Dressing/Grooming Self-Care Deficit: Feeding

Self-Care Deficit: Toileting Self-Concept, Readiness for Enhanced Self-Esteem, Chronic Low Self-Esteem, Situational Low Self-Esteem, Risk for Situational Low Self-Mutilation Self-Mutilation, Risk for Sensory Perception, Disturbed (Specify: Auditory, Gustatory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory Tactile, Visual) Sexual Dysfunction Sexuality Pattern, Ineffective Skin Integrity, Impaired Skin Integrity, Risk for Impaired Sleep Deprivation Sleep, Readiness for Enhanced Social Interaction, Impaired Social Isolation Sorrow, Chronic Spiritual Distress Spiritual Distress, Risk for Spiritual Well-Being, Readiness for Enhanced Spontaneous Ventilation, Impaired Stress, Overload Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Risk for Suffocation, Risk for Suicide, Risk for Surgical Recovery, Delayed Swallowing, Impaired Therapeutic Regimen Management: Community, Ineffective Therapeutic Regimen Management, Effective Therapeutic Regimen Management: Family, Ineffective Therapeutic Regimen Management, Ineffective Therapeutic Regimen Management, Readiness for Enhanced Thermoregulation, Ineffective Thought Processes, Disturbed Tissue Integrity, Impaired Tissue Perfusion, Ineffective (Specify: Cerebral, Cardiopulmonary, Gastrointestinal, Renal) Tissue Perfusion, Ineffective, Peripheral Transfer Ability, Impaired Trauma, Risk for Unilateral Neglect Urinary Elimination, Impaired Urinary Elimination, Readiness for Enhanced Urinary Incontinence, Functional Urinary Incontinence, Overflow Urinary Incontinence, Reflex Urinary Incontinence, Stress Urinary Incontinence, Total Urinary Incontinence, Urge Urinary Incontinence, Risk for Urge Urinary Retention Ventilatory Weaning Response, Dysfunctional Violence: Other-Directed, Risk for Violence: Self-Directed, Risk for Walking, Impaired Wandering

Source. NANDA Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification, 20072008. Philadelphia: North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. Used with permission.

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