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I am having difficulty coming up with nursing diagnosis for atherosclerosis. Can anyone help me? Also, what are the most common cited coronary artery disease risk equivalents for this disease? I asked my teacher and she said that risk factors and disease risk equivalents are not the same. All i have is diebetes so far.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

you need to break atherosclerosis down into its component signs and symptoms and choose nursing diagnoses based on what nursing diagnoses have those same signs and symptoms. every nursing diagnosis just like every medical diagnosis has a list of patient behaviors called cues or symptoms that we can observe and are characteristic of that specific nursing problem. nanda calls these cues or symptoms defining characteristics. a related group of cues and symptoms (defining characteristics) becomes a specific nursing problem and is given a label called a nursing diagnosis. to customize a care plan to a patient's needs you must consider their individual assessment data.

do you have your own copy of taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary? if it is a recent copy you will find a medical diagnosis to nursing diagnosis cross reference in the appendix along with a nanda taxonomy (listing of all the diagnoses with their definitions, defining characteristics and related factors).

you can see examples of how to diagnose on this sticky thread in the general nursing student discussion forum: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/help-care-plans-286986.html - help with care plans

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Thank you so much for your help. I will start my first year of nursing school this fall, but I am taking advanced pharmacology right now, so it is kind of difficult for me to do these types of assignments since I havent taken my first semester of nursing yet, but thank you for your help

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Daytonite, you are just AWESOME. I always see you on here helping everyone out:rcgtku:

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Specializes in ER.

Diabetes is not a nursing diagnosis!

I would look at the NANDA list and think about what kind of problems your patient might have. It takes a little practice but you should be able to pick it up quickly.

Good luck,

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Diabetes is not a nursing diagnosis!

I don't believe she was saying it was. She listed it as a risk for atherosclerosis.

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Thank you so much for your help. I will start my first year of nursing school this fall, but I am taking advanced pharmacology right now, so it is kind of difficult for me to do these types of assignments since I havent taken my first semester of nursing yet, but thank you for your help

so what class are you doing this for??

leslie

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