Nursing Diagnosis - R/F based on family HX alone?

xtxrn, ASN, RN · Sep 13, 2011

quick question - without having to drag out my tons of nursing books... Can you have a nursing diagnosis R/F based solely on familial history? It's been a minutes since I had to actually write out a nursing diagnosis!!
It's part of a health history, documenting what pt is at risk for based on family history. Didn't know if there was a quick ND for this so that I could look up interventions!!
Thanks!!

What is the potential problem? :confused:

punkydoodlesRN, BSN, RN · Sep 13, 2011

There's a couple, but the biggest is diabetes.

pt exercises and eats relatively healthy, but has a strong maternal and paternal hx. The other is depression/mental health. Again, strong family history.

xtxrn, ASN, RN · Sep 13, 2011

If the patients current labs are ok, I'm not sure I"d use it as a risk/for with the current admission. It's good to have the info in case there is something that would be more acute in seeing it as a risk to be dealt with......

When I think of "risk for" I think of falls r/t meds, balance, diagnoses (vertigo, TIAs, BP labile, etc), or things related to an actual acute diagnosis....

Sigh.....but I'm an old bird at this Maybe you'll get something that is more helpful. :)

Orange Tree · Sep 13, 2011

That seems a little too far out, to me.

Whispera, MSN, RN · Sep 13, 2011

Risk for ineffective coping related to family history of mental illness as evidenced by ________________.

Hey, I just looked diagnoses up online. It didn't take so long!

I do think such a thing is really digging deep to have a diagnosis based on something that doesn't have a current problem attached to it. Noting a possibility in an assessment is one thing. Writing a careplan based on it is a whole other potato.