Bowel Elimination nursing diagnosis

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I am doing a complete nursing assessment and need nursing diagnosis for each category (circulation, neuro, elimination, psychosocial, etc.) My patient was admitted with acute bronchitis had a urinary catheter and bowel elimination was normal. I need to come up with a actual nursing diagnosis (cannot be a risk for) for each category and I am at a stand still. Was wondering if anyone had any ideas. Thank you!

You might have been using it, but you can't call it a nursing diagnosis if it isn't in NANDA-I, sorry. It's not in the 2009-2011 edition, either. The link you posted is from 2005; the NANDA-I book and process has changed significantly for the better since then. It's not a static work. If you were in school in 2009 or later, your faculty ought to have turned you on to the (then) current edition.

Not trying to be curmudgeonly about this, but we all know nursing students (and faculty, who should know better) who make it up as they go along or don't update their information. I was recently involved in a legal case where the opposing expert used as part of a rationale for excessive care the nursing diagnosis "Rape trauma syndrome, silent reaction." However, that and the other RTS diagnosis were removed from the NANDA-I in 2009 for lack of research to support it.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

You're not being a curmudgeon about it Grn; I think that knowing the most accurate NANDA-I diagnoses helps shape our practice...I think that if more schools would promote NANDA-I, present nurses and nursing students would be more comfortable with care plans, and more nurses would join NANDA-I to help shape their practice. :)

At my current job, I start, update add and resolve my pts care plans, I need to know the most updated diagnoses. :yes:

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