Nursing Diagnoses for psychiatric nursing

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Hello,

I am a student nurse on placement currently in an acute community psychiatric setting. I was just curious to know if anyone had used other diagnoses lists aside from NANDA for this area? I am currently using NANDA, but I would be interested in looking at alternatives, if there are any available.

Thank you

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Specializes in Psych. Violence & Suicide prevention..

NANDA is the gold standard source.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Uhm...no NANDA is the standard and I am sure your program would not allow outside resources.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.

Maybe what you meant to ask is how to best use NANDA to write psych care plans?

If that is the case, I can tell you my in patient psych facility uses the following for nurses:

Risk for medication side effects --each pt or resident has a care plan for this.

Besides that I often see care plans for constipation.

Outside of this, we address their medical current complaints as well as medical history. If a person is diagnosed with hypertension, we write a care plan for it, hypothyroidism is also a common one, ATB treatments, wound care, fall risk, skin rashes, body fluid precautions and hepatitis are also common.

There are also a myriad of care plans written for their behaviors and IDLs (kind of like ADLs). They may address issues like elopement, fighting, etc. I don't know much about these because at my facility nurses don't write these or follow up on them.

HTH!

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cheers for that, appreciate the help from everyone. I just wanted to check - Am aware should check with the programme before using other resources...but i do like to try think outside the square and look at other options to solve things i'm having difficulty with - it's always worth looking/asking. thank you :)

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

Your textbook should have nursing diagnoses all over it!

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
cheers for that, appreciate the help from everyone. I just wanted to check - Am aware should check with the programme before using other resources...but i do like to try think outside the square and look at other options to solve things i'm having difficulty with - it's always worth looking/asking. thank you :)

Here in the US nursing students are not allowed to "go outside the box" for care plans. They must stick to a strict format...NANDA.

What are you having trouble with? tell us about your patient maybe we can help?

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