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| a conclusion or opinion that a problem or situation requires nursing care and that determines the cause of the problem, distinguishes between similar problems, or discriminates among two or more courses of action |
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| a clinical problem that cannot be solved by the nursing staff alone, but requires substantial nursing judgment |
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| an indicator of the presence or existence of a problem or condition that represents a client's underlying health status |
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| descriptions of a client's behavior that determine whether a nursing diagnosis is present and whether a particular diagnosis is appropriate or accurate |
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| a word, such as impaired, decreased, ineffective, acute, or chronic, that modifies or limits a nursing diagnoses, or gives it greater specificity |
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| a process of logical, flexible thinking to solve problems and plan nursing care that accounts for individual client needs and uses the individual strengths of the client and nurse to the fullest |
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| the process of deciding among several possible diagnoses to most accurately describe the client's problem |
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| a clinical judgment about individual, family or community responses to actual or potential health problems or life processes |
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| factors that appear to show some type of patterned relationship with the nursing diagnosis |
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| internal or external environmental factors that increase the vulnerability of a person, family, or community to an unhealthful event or state |
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| "risk for" nursing diagnosis |
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| describes human responses that may develop in a vulnerable person, family or community |
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| a system of identification, naming and classification of phenomena |
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