Nursing instructor #1 tells me that my "risk for" diagnoses cannot be a three-part diagnosis because how can you have evidence of something that hasn't happened yet.
Nursing instructor #2 asks me where is the third part of my "risk for" diagnosis. I tell her the rationale that I was taught about how a 3-part diagnosis is not appropriate for "risk for". She insists that it's not so and I must have the "as evidenced by" statement.
Can someone please direct me to an authoritative source on this one?
Tanky!! These instructors are driving me up a wall with their contradictions.
instructors....sometimes i think they need to go through nursing school one more time before they become teachers. a lot of times they forgot these things already (or too lazy to update their brains). its a fact, risk dx are never 3 part. it shouldnt be dependent upon the instructor or else thats just creating chaos. any instructor who says risk dx is 3parts or allows a medical dx as part of rndx should be sent to a fundamentals class. its unbelivable that some of u are saying it depends on the teacher. that teacher doesnt know crap. show her the book and point out to her that the book says it so. id love to hear how she would react.
We had an issue about this in our class too. Our original Fundamentals instructor left to teach at a college and our replacement teacher, which we have since learned is completely incompetent, insisted that a "risk-for" diagnosis was 3 part, even though we had all learned differently.
One of my classmates showed her our Fundamentals book... it says quite plainly in black-and-white, a risk-for diagnosis does NOT have three parts. If you have AEBs or manifested bys, then you have an actual problem and diagnosis and not a risk for one. The NANDA diagnosis book also says this.
The example of a 3-part nursing diagnosis that was provided by one poster was not correct because all of those things listed as AEBs should've been included on the related-tos.
I also am sick and tired of all the contradictions between nursing instructors!
aruray
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instructors....sometimes i think they need to go through nursing school one more time before they become teachers. a lot of times they forgot these things already (or too lazy to update their brains). its a fact, risk dx are never 3 part. it shouldnt be dependent upon the instructor or else thats just creating chaos. any instructor who says risk dx is 3parts or allows a medical dx as part of rndx should be sent to a fundamentals class. its unbelivable that some of u are saying it depends on the teacher. that teacher doesnt know crap. show her the book and point out to her that the book says it so. id love to hear how she would react.