Online Nursing Diagnoses,

[CaringT]

Do anyone know if there is a tool somewhere on the internet where you can put in a list of symptoms/characteristics and it will give you an accurate diagnoses?

[holywood]

I need a nursing diagnosis for DM, HTN and COPD AN, ARE THEIR ANY FREE WEBSITES TO RETREIVE THESE ITEMS?

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

i need a nursing diagnosis for dm, htn and copd an, are their any free websites to retreive these items?

no!this is like a doctor saying "i need a medical diagnosis for excess fluid volume, decreased cardiac output and risk for falls."

you have to follow the steps of the nursing process to get the nursing diagnoses that your patient needs. end of discussion. there is no other way to do it. you have to learn this method or you are not learning how to problem solve or think critically which is what you are going to nursing school for.

a diagnosis is the decision or opinion you make after you go through the process of examination or investigation of the facts. that process of examination and investigation is the first step of the nursing process--assessment. from your assessment you extract the things that were abnormal (unusual, irregular, aberrant) because these are symptoms of problems the patient has. a symptom is an objective observation or subjective perception you find in a patient. these symptoms become the underlying evidence to support the nursing diagnoses you will eventually choose. doctors use similar underlying evidence to support their medical diagnoses. however, nursing doesn't assess by the exact same criteria that doctors do, so our nursing diagnoses are different from medical diagnoses. and, we have a whole taxonomy which is a written arrangement or ordering of the nursing diagnoses into logical groupings that has been done by nanda (north american nursing diagnosis association). in order to choose the correct nursing diagnoses you need a book that has nursing diagnosis information in it so you can match your patient's symptoms to the correct nursing diagnoses. and, let me clarify further that a nursing diagnosis is nothing more than a label, a phrase of words, that actually concisely describes all the assessment information after some analysis of it. the remainder of your care plan focuses on your patients signs and symptoms--not on the nursing diagnosis. so, your entire care plan rests upon the information you obtained during your assessment of the patient. the only value of knowing your patient's medical diagnoses is in looking up information about these diseases to see what the medical symptoms of these conditions are and double checking your own assessment to see if you missed noticing any of them when you did your evaluation of the patient. this is how you increase your knowledge.

[MiaKeaRN]

I need a nursing diagnosis for DM, HTN and COPD AN, ARE THEIR ANY FREE WEBSITES TO RETREIVE THESE ITEMS?

There are websites that will help you with nursing diagnoses, but nothing that you can use in place of your own knowledge.....just something to use as a guide.

Good luck.

[pinkiepie_RN]

Here's a link to the NANDA approved diagnoses from my fundamentals textbook. As for the diagnoses and symptoms themselves, I'm with the group mind of using critical thinking and assessment. Good luck!

http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/3918/4012970/NursingTools/koz74686_AppC.pdf

[catzy5]

Thanks Daytonite,

I found that Elsevier care plan website to be very helpful!

do you have a website you can share for this site?

Thank you

Catherine

[nursebetty82]

if it were that easy we wouldn't have to go to school! but i did find this website that helps me do my care plans http://online.statref.com/titles/titleinfopage.aspx?titleid=78

[pagandeva2000, LPN]

I think that the OP meant nursing/NANDA diagnoses, not medical.

[maLdHitAh]

what are the nursing Dx of the pt. having COPD?