Justify this nursing diagnosis

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elkpark

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It struck me as a Reiki thing too.

It's not. The "disturbed energy field" NANDA dx was specifically create to accommodate "Therapeutic Touch," a treatment modality developed by Dolores Krieger in the 1970s concerned with manipulating energy fields. She is a nurse and had friends in the NANDA group when the NANDA taxonomy was being developed. Although, now that the dx exists, it could certainly be used in conjunction with other types of energy work.

Please note that I am only posting to provide background info, not to defend the diagnosis, or Therapeutic Touch as a treatment modality. I'm not a fan.

dishes, BSN, RN

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@elkpark thanks for clarifying, I am not a fan either, though I could become one, if ever in the future, energy practitioners are given medical tricoders and all they have to do is scan patients energy levels and zap them once or twice, I'm in.

elkpark

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Also, I'm not sure whether it counts as "justifying" the diagnosis, but I will point out that the breadth of the NANDA taxonomy, including some diagnoses that might seem silly or far-fetched to some, is the result of an intentional and thoughtful effort to have a diagnostic system that accommodates the fullest possible scope and range of nursing practice (including parts of nursing practice that some of us, individually, might not approve of or respect) and even anticipates the possible future expansion of that scope and range.

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I sense a disturbance in the Force.....

MunoRN, RN

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You'll be relieved to know that "disturbed energy field" is being removed from 2015 NANDA version, although I don't think that really relieves the collective embarrassment that should come from this being an approved nursing diagnosis for the last 20 years. NANDA's explanation for how it became a ND in the first place was that it happened before NANDA decided to limit approved nursing diagnoses to those which aren't clearly contradicted by a wealth of evidence, which I don't think is as reassuring as they think it is.

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You'll be relieved to know that "disturbed energy field" is being removed from 2015 NANDA version, although I don't think that really relieves the collective embarrassment that should come from this being an approved nursing diagnosis for the last 20 years. NANDA's explanation for how it became a ND in the first place was that it happened before NANDA decided to limit approved nursing diagnoses to those which aren't clearly contradicted by a wealth of evidence, which I don't think is as reassuring as they think it is.

Happy to hear this. At the risk of offending alternative practitioners (and I truly don't mean to offend), that nursing dx is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I was actually hoping the OP was kidding.

amoLucia

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Happy to hear this. At the risk of offending alternative practitioners (and I truly don't mean to offend), that nursing dx is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I was actually hoping the OP was kidding.
I should tell you what I thought of when I read that dx. Sheesh! Never heard of it before.

I wanted to say 'nanu, nanu'. Then I started thinking of all that enlightened 1960's Haight Ashbury 'aura' stuff. (Am showing my age!)

Then I thought of something that many would say makes me certifiable.

I always learn something new here, so to learn that there is some real basis to that dx is informative.

macawake, MSN

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"Disturbed Energy Field"

Let's hear it.

I'm a Swedish nurse. If I remember correctly that particular diagnosis doesn't exist in the Swedish translation. In my opinion it's hardly a scientifically sound diagnosis, so I can't say that I think it's a great loss :rolleyes:

(I think they have a footnote on the page it should have been on, explaining that it has been left out in the Swedish version but exists in the original version).

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