Craven Ch 13 Nursing Diagnosis

An existing human response to a health problem the nurse identifies that is amenable to nursing intervention

Patient data combined into meaningful patterns

Problems based on medical diagnoses, medically ordered treatments, or other related problems that require interdependent standards and activities to be addressed

Identified disease or pathologic process; treatment focuses on correcting or preventing specific pathology of specific organs or body systems

Actual, potential, or possible health problem identified by the nurse that is amenable to nursing intervention

Health problem amenable to nursing intervention that requires additional data collection and validation before it can be confirmed or deleted as a nursing diagnosis

Selecting a diagnosis before analyzing pertinent information

State of being at risk for the development of a health problem amenable to nursing intervention

Classification system to organize information

Reexamining information to check its accuracy