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MC Nursing Diagnosis Ch 17

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Medical Diagnosis   Identification of a disease condition based on a specific evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, the client's medical history, and the results of diagnostic tests and procedures.  
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Nursing Diagnosis   A clinical judgement about individual, family, or community responses to actual and potential health problems or life processes.  
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Collaborative Problem   An actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a client's status. (Nurses manage collaborative problems such as homorrhage, infection, and cardiac arrhythmia using both physician-prescribed and nurs  
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Client-Centered Problems   Early theorists defined nursing intervention in terms of client-centered problems.  
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Defining Characteristics   The clinical criteria or assessment findings that support actual nursing diagnosis.  
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Clinical Criteria   Objective or subjective signs and symptoms, clusters of signs and symptoms, or risk factors that lead to a diagnostic conclusion.  
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Actual Nursing Diagnosis   An actual nursing diagnosis describes human responses to health conditions of life processes that exist in an individual, family, or community. (Ex: Acute Pain.)  
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Risk Nursing Diagnosis   Describes human responses to health conditions/life processes that will possibly develop in a vulnerable individual, family, or community. (Ex: Risk for infection.)  
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Health Promotion Nursing Diagnosis   Clinical judgment of a person's, family's, or community's, motivation and desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential as expressed in their readiness to enhance specific health behaviors, such as nutrition and exercise. (Ex: Readine  
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Wellness Nursing Diagnosis   Human responses to levels of wellness in an individal, family, or community that have a readiness for enhancement. (Readiness for ehnaced coping related to successful cancer treatment.)  
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Diagnostic Label   The name of the nursing diagnosis as approved by NANDA.  
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Related Factors   Condition or etiology identified from the clint's assessment data. It is associated w/ the client's actual problem.  
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Etiology   Part of nursing diagnosis always w/in the domain of nursing practice and a condition that responds to nursing interventions.  
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Definition   Definition describes the characteristics of the human response identified.  
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Risk Factors   Environmental, physiological, psychological, genetic, or chemical elements that increase the vulnerability of an individual, family or community to an unhealthful event.  
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Support of the Diagnostic Statement   Nursing assement data needs to support the diagnostic label, and the related factors need to support the etiology.  
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Culture and N.Diagnoses   Cultural differnces, impaired communication, client value system all could impact diagnostic conclusions.  
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Error Sources in Nursing Diagnostic Process   Errors occur during data collection, clustering, interpretation, and statement of diagnosis.  
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Practice Ti[ps to Avoid Data Collection Errors   Be knowledgeable & experienced in assessment techniques. Approach assessment in steps. Review your clinical assessments. Determine veracity of data by having co-worker validate findings. Be organized and have approp. forms/equipment.  
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Error in Data Clustering   Don't make nursing diagnosis fit the signs and symptoms obtained.  
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Errors in Diagnostic Statement   Word correctly. Use NANDA terminology. Problem and etiology need to be w/in scope of nursing.  
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