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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 (NANDA) standardized taxonomy of terms |
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| the casual relationship between a problem and its related or risk factors |
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| Health Promotion Diagnosis |
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| relates to clients' preparedness to implement behaviors to improve their health condition |
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| areas of health care unique to nursing, seperate and distinct from medical mangement |
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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 judgement 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 includingthe terms describing the problem, the etiology of the problem, and the defining characteristics or cluster of signs and symptoms |
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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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| factors that cause a client to be vulnerable to developing a health problem |
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| clinical judgement 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 catergories, such as nursing diagnoses, arranged on the basis of a single principle or consistent set of principles |
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| (NANDA) describes human responses to levels of wellness in an individual, family, or community that have a readiness for enhancement |
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