Depression Care Plan help

Psych has its own nursing diagnosis book...shoot, I can't remember the name since I never used it. Google might be your best bet..:)

"Depression" is a medical diagnosis, not a nursing diagnosis. This is why you won't find it in your NANDA-I 2012-2014.

Nursing diagnosis does not derive from medical diagnosis. A nurse cannot say, "My patient has depression. What is her nursing diagnosis?"

What symptoms/signs ("defining characteristics") have you assessed in your patient? No defining characteristics for nursing diagnosis, no nursing diagnosis.

Physicians use specific criteria to diagnose medical conditions-- for example, blood count for anemia, chest xray and sputum analysis for tuberculosis.

Nurses use specific criteria to make nursing diagnoses-- they are listed in your NANDA-I 20112-2014 and called "defining characteristics."

As cavitations and tuberculosis bacilli in the sputum are the defining characteristics to make the diagnosis of tuberculosis, so are the defining characteristics for nursing diagnoses used to make the nursing diagnoses.

Can you do another one rather than psych? like acute pain, or risk for infection

Nursing dx, the problem

Hopelessness

Related to, would be the cause of the problem

Long term stress, prolonged activity restrictions

As evidenced by would be, what makes you so sure? What cues did he or she give you?

patient verbalization of "I can't imagine going thru this again", lack of involvement of care

Look at the effects her psych diagnosis has had upon her, and you'll be beginning to think like a nurse. That's why medical dx may be a related-to factor in a nursing dx. What have you found in your NANDA-I?