Student Resources: Nursing Diagnoses - Page 2

Ahhh, this is a great resource! I'm starting clinicals a week from Tuesday and this will be a great help. Thanks for posting :heartbeat

I will be referring back to this again and again...thanks!

Hey guys im doing my first care plan (group presentation, 1 ns diagnosis per person) and have to come up with a nursing diagnosis for a young jewish mother of 2 toddlers who has been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. This is what i came up withe for the diagnosis part:

activity intolerance r/t generalized weakness and fatigue aeb inability to perform daily physical activities.

i was wondering if the related factors have to be listed in the nanda book or not because i used fatigue as a realted factor although it is not listed. also id like to know if my aeb is too broad ? should i make it more specific such as "aeb patient verbalization of weakness/ exhaustion?" all help is appreciated ... please let me know anything else im missing my teacher did explain this very well!!

thank a lot.......very very useful.....

i need anursing diagnosis for chronic renal failure

Outstanding resource. Thanks so much. I can't stop hitting those links. Like Christmas.

I'm an old fart and I remember when nursing DX first came about. I remember the we'll be able to bill for our own nursing servicves arguments.

One path that I've taken when trying to teach nursing dx, especially to people who already have predjudice against them, is that it's a way of thinking. It's a way to teach yourself an organized, systomatic way to approach your patient. When you start, it takes thought, but after you get experience, you learn to do it on the fly. IF YOU"VE LEANED THE CONCEPTS.

When a patient comes into the unit, it really doesn't matter what their medical dx is. The nursing care is directed by their problem. IT really doesn't matter that much in the first few minutes or hours even if your DIB pt has pneumonia, CHF, ,COPD or whatever. it's the hypoxia and the recognition that it's a pulmonary cause and not a cardiac or whatever. (overly sipmlistic example alert)

The question I have, is this, and it's a question, because I don't know. Is nursing DX one of those things that need to be changed. Either how it's normally taught, or the importance it's given?