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| Actual or potential health problems that can be prevented or resolved by independent nursing intervention. |
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Is to
- Identidy how an individual, group, or community responds to actual or potential health and life processes.
- Identidy factors that contribute to or cause health problems (etiologies).
- Identify resources or strengths the individual, group, or community can draw on to prevent or resolve problems.
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| Is a condition that necessitates intervention to prevent or resolve disease or illness or to promote coping and wellness. |
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| Identify diseases, whereas nursing diagnoses focus on unhealthy responses to health and illness. |
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| As "certain physiologic complications that nurses monitor to detect onset or changes in status. |
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| While failing to detect and actual unhealthy behavior, nurses must be familiar with comparative standards to be used in data interpretation and analysis. |
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| Or a norm, is a generally accepted rule, measure, pattern, or model to which data can be compared in the same class or category. |
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| Is a grouping of patient data or cues that points to the existence of patient health problems. |
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Represent a problem that has been validated by the presence of major defining characteristics.
Four Components
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- Definition
- Defining characterisitcs
- Related factor
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| Are clinical judgements that an idividual, family, or community is more vulnerable to develop the problem than others in the same or similar situation. |
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| Possible Nursing Diagnoses |
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| Are statments describing a suspected problem for which additional data are needed. Additional data are used to confirm or rule out the suspected problem. |
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| Are clinical judgements about an individual, group, or community in transition from a specific level of wellness to a higher levvel of wellness. |
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| Comprise a cluster of actual or risk nuring diagnoses that are predicted to be present because of a certain event or situation. |
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