Help With Physiological and Psychosocial Nursing Diagnosis

I'm having a problem distinguishing between psychosocial and physiological nursing diagnosis'. Is Knowledge Deficit 1st time mother and not knowing how to perform personal cares a psychosocial or physiological nursing diagnosis? And I'm also looking for a list to separate the two.

I the beginning of nursing school, we were told to go through the entire list of nandas indexed in the nanda book. Then read each of them and figure out why or why not they may be appropriate for your patient. It was something that seriously helped me through nursing school. Try it, it helps you to also get familiar with each of the nandas for future use

Yep, get a nursing diagnosis handbook. It will help! :)

Can you recomend one?

Ok, thank you!

Note that NANDA-I is pretty picky about the amount of its content it allows other works to reprint. For example, I doubt very much that any "care planning book" reproduces all the defining characteristics and all the related factors of every one of the NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses (note: they aren't "nandas"). This is why you are well-advised to get the original in addition to any other work. It's not expensive and it really will add to your understanding of the whole concept-- get ahead of your class! ?

Ok, thanks for the advice!

Specializes in Pediatrics.

Hey everyone:

I just have a quick question. I'm doing my concept map and care plan right now for my clinical rotation and I'm stuck on trying to decide a psychosocial nursing diagnosis for my patient. I was thinking: Self-Care deficit r/t impaired mobility AEB inability to ambulate and perform toileting tasks independently. I think I'm having a moment right now, but is that actually a psychosocial nursing diagnosis? Not sure why I'm having so much difficulties on this.

Here's a quick report on my patient: 95 y/o, altered mental status, UTI, (AMS due to UTI -- never had confusion or any other signs of dementia before UTI diagnosis as per her daughter), muscle weakness on lower extremities due to peripheral vascular disease, unsteady gait - requires assistance from personnel and her walker as well, unable to perform ADLs due to mobility issues, urinary frequency/incontinence. She's very calm and non-combative, tries to follow directions to the best of her ability.

Am I on the right track with my diagnosis? I've never done a psychosocial nursing diagnosis before. The only one I ever used was "Anxiety" for one of my patients with PTSD.

Please let me know what you all think! Thanks a bunch!

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

What would be important to you if you became confused and KNEW you were confused. How would that make you feel?

How about.....Risk for compromised Human Dignity or Powerlessness or Impaired individual Resilience

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