Nursing diagmoses used by a school nurse

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I have to provide 6 nursing diagnoses that a school nurse would use. I'm having trouble getting started. Some of the problems for the school elemtary child I have assessed include bullying among students, headlice, chicken pox, asthma, health education classes. Any suggestions as to how to put these into a nursing diagnosis? Or other nursing diagnoses used for a school nurse?:nurse:

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Hello,

It depends on what age and all the s&s that you can gather, but remembering what it was like being a teenager. You might have encounter the following:

Sleep deprivation

Anxiety

Coping Ineffective

Risk prone health behavior

Disturbed body image

Disturbed personal identity

Chronic low self esteem

Situational low self esteem

Stress Overload

Ineffective Airway Clearance

Self Mutilation

Risk for suicide

Readiness for enhanced immunization status

Risk for self-directed violence

Risk for other-directed violence

Impaired social interaction

Delayed growth and development

Rape-Trauma syndrome

There are many more, but I just wanted to give you some to think about.

Best regards,

Jean

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please read the information on this thread:

there are only a scant few diagnoses that you might classify as being exclusively pediatric, but the nursing diagnoses were never developed or classified by patient age--rather by patient's responses to their environment and illness conditions. any diagnosis, whether made by a nurse or a doctor, is totally dependent on the symptoms of the conditions/diseases they have, problems accomplishing tasks in their daily lives or statements by the patient of their negativity or doubts about their health status. nanda calls these symptoms defining characteristics. every nursing diagnosis has a list of these symptoms, or defining characteristics, and the patient must have one or more of them in order for you to be able to assign that specific diagnosis to a patient. you find those symptoms by doing a thorough assessment of the patient first. to find diagnoses you really should have a nursing diagnosis reference of some sort. there are a number of ways to acquire this reference information:

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