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Nursing Diagnoses
Nursing Diagnoses for psych-mental health
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Nursing
Undergraduate 2
10/30/2012

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Term
Anxiety
Definition
A vauge uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread accompanied by autonomic response (the source often nonspecific or unknown to the individual); a feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger. It is an alerting signal that warns of impending danger and enables the individual to take measures to deal with threat
Term
Disturbed Body Image
Definition
Confusion in mental picture of one's physical self
Term
Impaired verbal Communication
Definition
decreased, delayed, or absent ability to receive, process, transmit, and/or use a system of symbols.
Term
Decisional Conflict
Definition
Uncertainty about course of action to be taken when choice among competing actions involves risk, loss, or challenge to values and beliefs
Term

Defensive Coping

 

 

Definition

Repeated projection of falsely positive self-evaluation based on a self-protective pattern that defends against underlying perceived threats to positive self-regard

 

DENIAL, DIFFICULT

Term
Ineffective Coping
Definition

Inability to form a valid appraisal of the stressors, inadequate choices of practiced responses, and/or inability to use available resources

 

INABILITY, INADEQUATE, not able to meat basic needs

 

DISORDER: Somatoform Disorders

Term
Ineffective Denial
Definition

Conscious and unconscious attempt to disavow the knowledge or meaning of an event to reduce anxiety/fear, but leading to detriment of health

 

Delays seeking health care

Term
Complicated Grieving
Definition
A disorder that occurs after the death of a significant other in which the experience of distress accompanying bereavement fails to follow normative expectations and manifests in functional impairment.
Term
Risk for Complicated Grieving
Definition

At risk for a disorder that occurs after the death of a significant other in which the experience of distress accompanying bereavement fails to follow normative expectations and manifests in functional impairment.

 

RISK FACTORS: death of significatn other, emotional instability, lack of support

Term
Ineffective Self Health Management
Definition

Pattern of regulating and integrating into daily living a therapeutic regime for treatment of illness and its sequelae that is unsatisfactory for metting specific health goals

 

characteristics: failure to include treatment in daily living, failure to take action to reduce risk factors, does verbalize difficulty with regimen.

Term
Hoplessness
Definition

Subjective state in which an individual sees imited or no alternatives or personal choices available and is unable to mobilize engergy on own behalf

 

characteristics: closing eyes, decreased affect; decreased appetite, decreased response to stimuli, sighing

Term
Powerlessness
Definition

Perception that one's own actions will not significantly affect an outcome; a perceived lack of control over current situation or immediate happening

 

 

characteristics: expression of uncertainty about fluctuating engergy levels,frustration of inability to perform previous  tasks, expresses having no control

Term
Risk for Powerlessness
Definition

At risk for perceived lack of control over a situation and/or one's ability to significantly affect an outcome

 

Risk Factors: acute injury, dying, illness, chronic low self-esteem

Term
Noncompliance
Definition

Behavior of a person and/or caregiver that fails to coincide with a health-promoting plan agreed on by the person, family, health care professional

 

May lead to clinically ineffective or partially ineffective outcomes. 

Term
Risk for Loneliness
Definition

At risk for experiencing discomfort associated with a desire or need for more contact with others

 

Risk Factors: isolation, deprivation-affection, 

Term
Disturbed personal Identity
Definition
Inability to maintain an integrated and complete perception of self
Term
Post Trauma Syndrome
Definition

Sustained maladaptive response to a traumatic, overwhelming event

 

characteristics: aggression, alienation, anger 

Term
Rape Trauma syndrome
Definition
Sustained maladptive response to a forced, violent sexual penetration against the victim's will and consent
Term
Impaired Individual Resilience
Definition

Decreased ability to sustain a pattern of positive responss to an adverse situation or crisis

 

characteristics: decreased interest in academic activities, depression, guilt, isolation 

Term
Chronic Low Self-Esteem
Definition
Long-standing negative self-evaluating/feelings about self or self-capabilities
Term
Situational Low Self-Esteem
Definition
Development of a negative preception of self-worth in response to a current situation
Term
Self-Mutilation
Definition
Deliberate self-injurious behavior causing tissue damage with the intent of causing nonfatal injurty to attain relief of tension
Term
Risk for Self-Mutilation
Definition
At risk for deliberate self-injurious behavior causing tissue damage with the intent of causing nonfatal injury to attain relief of tension
Term
Disturbed Sensory Percetion: visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, gustatory, Tactile, Olfactory
Definition

Change in the amoount or patterning of incoming stimuli accompanied by a diminished, exaggerated, distorted, or impaired response to such stimuli

 

characteristics: disorientation, hallucinations, sensory distortions

Term
 Impaired Social Interaction
Definition

Insufficient or excessive quantity or ineffective quality of social exchange

 

characteristics:discomfort in social situations, dysfunctional interaction with others

Term
Social Isolation
Definition

aloneness experienced by the individual and perceived as imposed by others and as a negative or threatening state

 

 

Term

Risk for Loneliness

 

vs Social Isolation

Definition

desire or need for more contact with others

 

vs

 

Aloneness experienced by individual-preoccupation with own thoughts

Term
Risk for Suicide
Definition

At risk for self-inflicted, life-threatening injury

 

R/T: marked changes in attitude, behaviour, school performance, history of prior suicide attempt

Term
Risk for Other-directed Violence
Definition

At risk behaviors in which an individual demonstrates that he or she can be physically, emotionally, and/or sexually harmful to others

 

Risk Factors: availability to weapon, body language, clenching fist, pacing, throwing objects, history of violence

Term
Risk for Self-Directed Violence
Definition
At risk behaviors in which an individual demonstrates that he or she can be physically, emotionally, and/or sexually harmful to self
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