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| client signs and symptoms that must be present to validate a nursing diagnosis |
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| with regard to medical diagnoses, physician-prescribed therapies and treatments nurses are obligated to carry out |
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| a statement or conclusion concerning the nature of some phenomenon |
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| title used in writing a nursing diagnosis; taken from the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association's (NANDA) standardized taxonomy of terms |
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| an activity that the nurse is licensed to initiate as a result of the nurse's own knowledge and skills |
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| an ideal or fixed standard; an expected standard of behavior of group members |
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| the nurse's clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual and potential health problems/life processes to provide the basis for selecting nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable |
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| the three essential components of nursing diagnostic statements including the terms describing the problem, the etiology of the problem, and the defining characteristics or cluster of signs and symptoms |
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| Possible Nursing Diagnosis |
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| one in which evidence about a health problem is incomplete or unclear |
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| words that have been added to some NANDA labels to give additional meaning to the diagnostic statement |
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| clinical judgment that a problem does not exist, but the presence of risk factors indicates that a problem is likely to develop unless nurses intervene |
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| a generally accepted rule, model, pattern, or measure |
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| a diagnosis that is associated with a cluster of other diagnoses |
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| a classification system or set of categories, such as nursing diagnoses, arranged on the basis of a single principle or consistent set of principles |
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