nursing diagnosis prioritization

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Hello !! I need help, I have this paper due and I am having difficulty with prioritizing diagnosis. The diagnosis are:a-fib,respiratory failure,dysphagia,chronic kidney disease,CAD,BPA,anemia,tracheotomy. Can someone help me ?Thanks in advance

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

Well those are medical diagnosis, do you need to prioritize your nursing diagnosis?

Look at your nursing diagnosis and your pt medical dx and what you know about your pt...history

Then tell us what you think

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these are medical diagnosis not nursing.... what is the assessment information?

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

When in doubt - nursing or medicine - always follow the ABCs.... Airway, Breathing, C-Spine/Cardiac. Highest priority is always given to the most life-threatening issue because there's no relevance to meeting comfort or emotional needs if the patient is deceased. You could also align your prioritization to Mazlow - more levels, but the same general principle applies.

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Prioritizing medical diagnoses is one thing. No breathing, no heartbeat, no circulation= no patient, dead person. Everything else sorta follows after that, and you can make your own choices and be prepared to justify them. Different people may have different ideas; your faculty want to know how you think, not just whether you can solve a puzzle on the only way possible (there isn't one).

You cannot make priority nursing diagnoses from this list because you don't have any.

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