Is this a nursing diagnosis?

[futureclern]

Would this be considered a nursing diagnosis?

"Patient has stress overload and death anxiety r/t the timing and gravity of his medical diagnosis as evidenced by patient and family statements."

Gotta love that first semester of nursing school....

[Xiatara]

I would probably put

Anxiety r/t lack of knowledge regarding symptoms, progression of condition and treatment regimen aeb feelings of discomfort, apprehension or helplessness

Reference: nurseslabs.com

[futureclern]

Thank you! I ask because I submitted this in a care plan and my clinical instructor took a huge chunk off my grade because she said it was not a nursing diagnosis.

[37changes, ASN, RN]

Our nursing diagnoses had to be NANDA approved. Have they told you that? If not, do some googling. It will show you what those look like.

Also, use nurselabs. For sure.

[Cindyel, ASN, RN]

You also can use a second nursing diagnosis for your R/T such as Anxiety R/T knowledge deficit then you can add facts after that and then your AEB.

[FolksBtrippin, BSN, RN]

Anxiety is a nursing dx. But I don't think stress overload is one.

[Spadeforce]

it sounds dumb enough to be one!

[JKL33]

Did they not have you purchase a Nursing Dx book with NANDA diagnoses? If those are the diagnoses they're looking for, then no one can do it properly without a NANDA book/reference (short of having memorized all of them for some reason...)

[tesa0414]

Did they not have you purchase a Nursing Dx book with NANDA diagnoses? If those are the diagnoses they're looking for, then no one can do it properly without a NANDA book/reference (short of having memorized all of them for some reason...)

Agree totally. We had to purchase one as a supplement to our regular textbooks. It's super helpful. Many books have a pretty comprehensive list of NANDA diagnoses, possible related factors, and defining characteristics. You can pretty much just pick from each section what relates to your patient, put it together, and theres the diagnosis. The one i use also has outcomes/evaluation criteria, action/interventions, and documentation guidelines. So like the entire care plan basically.

I definitely recommend you pick one of these guys up, they're great. Nursing dx can be so tricky.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

Would this be considered a nursing diagnosis?

"Patient has stress overload and death anxiety r/t the timing and gravity of his medical diagnosis as evidenced by patient and family statements."

Gotta love that first semester of nursing school....

Not likely a NDx. Schools are going to want the NDx to be NANDA approved. What you came up with isn't on that list. From what I can determine, there's 244 nursing diagnoses in the current NANDA version. They add, remove, and revise things pretty frequently. Also a nursing diagnosis statement has a particular structure to it.

The difficult part of the NDx is learning to let the data drive the diagnosis vs simply picking one and trying to fit the data to it.

Anxiety, ineffective coping, Death Anxiety, etc are all on that list. Get a current book that has the actual definition and look through the definitions. Remember that you cannot directly convert medical diagnoses and nursing diagnoses. Both are data driven so the process you use to come up with a given diagnosis is the same, but the way nursing and medicine work with the same data can (and sometimes will) result in different diagnoses.