Ch 17 Nursing Diagnosis objectives

Differentiate among a nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis, and collaborative problem.

A nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment; whereas, a medical diagnosis is the identification of a disease condition based on a specific evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, and the patients medical history. A collaborative problem is an actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a patient's status.

Describe the steps of the nursing diagnostic process.

Apply the problem, etiology, and symptoms diagnostic statement. Examine the problem of the patient, look at the related factors of the patient, and find the defining characteristic of the problem.

Discuss the purposes of using nursing diagnosis in practice

Diagnosis of a patient is a clinical judgment about an individual.

Discus the relationship of critical thinking to the nursing diagnostic process.

Critical thinking is essential to a patient's diagnosis because it lets the Nurse assess and solve the problem by looking at the patients medical history and well-being.

Describe sources of diagnostic errors.

Identify the patient's response instead of the medical diagnosis. Identify the diagnostic statement rather than a symptom. Identify treatable etiology or risk factors rather than a problem that is not treatable through nursing interventions. Identify the problem caused by the treatment rather than the treatment of study itself. Identify the patient response to the equipment rather than the equipment itself. Identify the patients problems theater than your problem with nursing care. Identify patient problem rather than the nursing intervention. Identify the patient problem rather than the goal of care. Make professional rather than prejudicial judgments. Avoid legally inadvisable statements. Identify the problem and etiology to avoid a circular statements (vague and give no direction). Identify only one patient problem in the diagnostic statement.

Explain how defining characteristics and the biological process individualize a nursing diagnosis.

Mapping out the Nursing diagnosis starts with problem. After the problem has been determined, find the relating factors of the problem, and finally list all symptoms or defining characteristics of the problem.

Identify nursing diagnoses from a nursing assessment.

Nursing assessment must be done before a nursing diagnosis.