NSE 11A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blood Sugar, Nursing Diagnosis, Cluster Analysis
8 Feb 2016
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Potter & perry p. 162-171, 174-188, 194-200 and roy chapter 6. Discuss the significance and contribution of nanda to nursing practice. Nanda is a professional organization of nurses" standardized nursing terminology that develops, researches, disseminates and refines the nomenclature, criteria, and taxonomy of nursing diagnoses. A medical diagnosis is the identification of a disease condition on the basis of a specific evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, the client"s medical history and the results of diagnostic tests and procedures. Nadnda has two nursing diagnoses that apply to knowledge: deficient knowledge and readiness for enhanced knowledge. Diagnostic reasoning is a process of using assessment data about a client to logically explain a clinical judgement: in this case, a nursing diagnosis. The diagnostic process flows from the assessment process and includes decision-making. These steps include data clustering, identifying client needs, and formulating the steps diagnosis or problem.
