On my first maternity and child clinical I worked with a little boy with jaundice. Which of the NANDA diagnosis would fit with this? Could you please help me with suggestions for interventions? I guess the goal would be to reduce the billirubin level to one low enough to be discharged(?). It was 10.9 when discharged. Any comments are greatly appreciated!!

What are the symptoms of the elevated bilirubin levels? That is how you determine the nursing problem. The skin is discolored and the baby is placed under bili-light. So, the problem is one of potential injury to the skin. Therefore, your patient's problem is Risk for Injury (due to side effects of the phototherapy) R/T therapeutic intervention. The reason I put "side effects of phototherapy" in parentheses is because when you write the nursing interventions and goals/outcomes for this nursing diagnosis, you will focus on monitoring for and preventing those side effects. I do not mean for you to include those words in your actual nursing diagnostic statement. However, when you write any "Risk for" nursing diagnosis, it must have a specific target risk. In this case, the specific target risk would be the side effects of the phototherapy. The actual nursing diagnosis you would use is: Risk for Injury R/T therapeutic intervention.