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Abstract
This pocket-sized reference is ideal for use in clinicals, in class and at the bedside! A condensed version of the Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 10th Edition, Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis, 4th edition uses a quick-access format to help you diagnose and formulate care plans with confidence and ease. It includes the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses based on more than 1,300 specific symptoms and a step-by-step guide to creating care plans featuring desired outcomes, interventions, and patient teaching.
- UNIQUE! Care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis, including pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, client/family teaching and discharge planning, and safety interventions
- Alphabetical thumb tabs provide quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses
- Pocketsize portability makes this book easy to carry and use in clinicals, in class, or at the bedside
- NEW! 4 Color Text
- NEW! Updated 2012-2014 NANDA-I-approved nursing diagnoses
- NEW! 16 new and 22 revised diagnoses
- NEW! Added content on safety, one of QSEN’s six competencies
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover\r | Cover | ||
| 2012-2014 NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses | IFC1 | ||
| Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis\r | iii | ||
| Copyright\r | iv | ||
| Dedication | v | ||
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||
| How to Use Mosby’s Guide to Nursing Diagnosis\r | xv | ||
| Contents\r | xvi | ||
| Section I - Guide to Nursing Diagnoses | 1 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: A | e1 | ||
| A | 2 | ||
| ABDOMINAL DISTENTION | 2 | ||
| ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY | 2 | ||
| ABDOMINAL PAIN | 2 | ||
| ABDOMINAL SURGERY | 2 | ||
| ABDOMINAL TRAUMA | 2 | ||
| ABLATION, RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER | 2 | ||
| ABORTION, INDUCED | 2 | ||
| ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS | 3 | ||
| ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE <36 WEEKS | 3 | ||
| ABSCESS FORMATION | 3 | ||
| ABUSE, CHILD | 3 | ||
| ABUSE, SPOUSE, PARENT, OR SIGNIFICANT OTHER | 3 | ||
| ACCESSORY MUSCLE USE (TO BREATHE) | 4 | ||
| ACCIDENT PRONE | 4 | ||
| ACHALASIA | 4 | ||
| ACID-BASE IMBALANCES | 4 | ||
| ACIDOSIS, METABOLIC | 4 | ||
| ACIDOSIS, RESPIRATORY | 4 | ||
| ACNE | 4 | ||
| ACS (ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME) | 4 | ||
| ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME | 5 | ||
| ACROMEGALY | 5 | ||
| ACTIVITY INTOLERANCE, POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP | 5 | ||
| ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN | 5 | ||
| ACUTE ALCOHOL INTOXICATION | 5 | ||
| ACUTE BACK PAIN | 5 | ||
| ACUTE CONFUSION | 5 | ||
| ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME | 5 | ||
| ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (ALL) | 5 | ||
| ACUTE RENAL FAILURE | 5 | ||
| ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME | 5 | ||
| ADAMS-STOKES SYNDROME | 5 | ||
| ADDICTION | 5 | ||
| ADDISON’S DISEASE | 6 | ||
| ADENOIDECTOMY | 6 | ||
| ADHESIONS, LYSIS OF | 6 | ||
| ADJUSTMENT DISORDER | 6 | ||
| ADJUSTMENT IMPAIRMENT | 6 | ||
| ADOLESCENT, PREGNANT | 6 | ||
| ADOPTION, GIVING CHILD UP FOR | 7 | ||
| ADRENOCORTICAL INSUFFICIENCY | 7 | ||
| ADVANCE DIRECTIVES | 7 | ||
| AFFECTIVE DISORDERS | 7 | ||
| AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION | 7 | ||
| AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR | 7 | ||
| AGING | 7 | ||
| AGITATION | 8 | ||
| AGORAPHOBIA | 8 | ||
| AGRANULOCYTOSIS | 8 | ||
| AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME) | 8 | ||
| AIDS DEMENTIA | 9 | ||
| AIDS, CHILD | 9 | ||
| AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION/SECRETIONS | 9 | ||
| ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL | 9 | ||
| ALCOHOLISM | 10 | ||
| ALCOHOLISM, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY PROCESSES | 10 | ||
| ALKALOSIS | 10 | ||
| ALL (ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA) | 10 | ||
| ALLERGIES | 10 | ||
| ALOPECIA | 11 | ||
| ALTERED MENTAL STATUS | 11 | ||
| ALS (AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS) | 11 | ||
| ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE | 11 | ||
| AMD (AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION) | 11 | ||
| AMENORRHEA | 11 | ||
| AMI (ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION) | 11 | ||
| AMNESIA | 11 | ||
| AMNIOCENTESIS | 11 | ||
| AMNIONITIS | 12 | ||
| AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE RUPTURE | 12 | ||
| AMPUTATION | 12 | ||
| AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) | 12 | ||
| ANAL FISTULA | 12 | ||
| ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK | 12 | ||
| ANAPHYLAXIS PREVENTION | 12 | ||
| ANASARCA | 12 | ||
| ANEMIA | 12 | ||
| ANEMIA, IN PREGNANCY | 13 | ||
| ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL | 13 | ||
| ANENCEPHALY | 13 | ||
| ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL SURGERY | 13 | ||
| ANEURYSM, CEREBRAL | 13 | ||
| ANGER | 13 | ||
| ANGINA | 13 | ||
| ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY (CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION) | 14 | ||
| ANGIOPLASTY, CORONARY | 14 | ||
| ANOMALY, FETAL/NEWBORN (PARENT DEALING WITH) | 14 | ||
| ANORECTAL ABSCESS | 14 | ||
| ANOREXIA | 15 | ||
| ANOREXIA NERVOSA | 15 | ||
| ANOSMIA (SMELL, LOSS OF ABILITY TO) | 15 | ||
| ANTEPARTUM PERIOD | 15 | ||
| ANTERIOR REPAIR, ANTERIOR COLPORRHAPHY | 15 | ||
| ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY | 15 | ||
| ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER | 15 | ||
| ANURIA | 16 | ||
| ANXIETY | 16 | ||
| ANXIETY DISORDER | 16 | ||
| AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR (ABDOMINAL SURGERY) | 16 | ||
| AORTIC VALVULAR STENOSIS | 16 | ||
| APHASIA | 16 | ||
| APLASTIC ANEMIA | 16 | ||
| APNEA IN INFANCY | 16 | ||
| APNEUSTIC RESPIRATIONS | 16 | ||
| APPENDECTOMY | 17 | ||
| APPENDICITIS | 17 | ||
| APPREHENSION | 17 | ||
| ARDS (ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME) | 17 | ||
| ARRHYTHMIA | 17 | ||
| ARTERIAL INSUFFICIENCY | 17 | ||
| ARTHRITIS | 17 | ||
| ARTHROCENTESIS | 17 | ||
| ARTHROPLASTY (TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT) | 17 | ||
| ARTHROSCOPY | 17 | ||
| ASCITES | 17 | ||
| ASPERGER’S SYNDROME | 18 | ||
| ASPHYXIA, BIRTH | 18 | ||
| ASPIRATION, DANGER OF | 18 | ||
| ASSAULT VICTIM | 18 | ||
| ASSAULTIVE CLIENT | 18 | ||
| ASTHMA | 18 | ||
| ATAXIA | 19 | ||
| ATELECTASIS | 19 | ||
| ATHEROSCLEROSIS | 19 | ||
| ATHLETE’S FOOT | 19 | ||
| ATN (ACUTE TUBULAR NECROSIS) | 19 | ||
| ATRIAL FIBRILLATION | 19 | ||
| ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT | 19 | ||
| ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER | 19 | ||
| AUDITORY PROBLEMS | 19 | ||
| AUTISM | 19 | ||
| AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA | 20 | ||
| AUTONOMIC HYPERREFLEXIA | 20 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: B | e4 | ||
| B | 20 | ||
| BABY CARE | 20 | ||
| BACK PAIN | 20 | ||
| BACTEREMIA | 20 | ||
| BARREL CHEST | 20 | ||
| BATHING/HYGIENE PROBLEMS | 20 | ||
| BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME | 20 | ||
| BATTERED PERSON | 21 | ||
| BEDBUGS, INFESTATION | 21 | ||
| BED MOBILITY, IMPAIRED | 21 | ||
| BED REST, PROLONGED | 21 | ||
| BEDSORES | 21 | ||
| BEDWETTING | 21 | ||
| BELL’S PALSY | 21 | ||
| BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY | 21 | ||
| BEREAVEMENT | 21 | ||
| BILIARY ATRESIA | 21 | ||
| BILIARY CALCULUS | 22 | ||
| BILIARY OBSTRUCTION | 22 | ||
| BILIRUBIN ELEVATION IN NEONATE | 22 | ||
| BIOPSY | 22 | ||
| BIOTERRORISM | 22 | ||
| BIPOLAR DISORDER I (MOST RECENT EPISODE, DEPRESSED OR MANIC) | 22 | ||
| BIRTH ASPHYXIA | 22 | ||
| BIRTH CONTROL | 22 | ||
| BLADDER CANCER | 22 | ||
| BLADDER DISTENTION | 22 | ||
| BLADDER TRAINING | 22 | ||
| BLADDER TRAINING, CHILD | 23 | ||
| BLEEDING TENDENCY | 23 | ||
| BLEPHAROPLASTY | 23 | ||
| BLINDNESS | 23 | ||
| BLOOD DISORDER | 23 | ||
| BLOOD PRESSURE ALTERATION | 23 | ||
| BLOOD SUGAR CONTROL | 23 | ||
| BLOOD TRANSFUSION | 23 | ||
| BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER | 23 | ||
| BODY IMAGE CHANGE | 23 | ||
| BODY TEMPERATURE, ALTERED | 23 | ||
| BONE MARROW BIOPSY | 23 | ||
| BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER | 23 | ||
| BOREDOM | 24 | ||
| BOTULISM | 24 | ||
| BOWEL INCONTINENCE | 24 | ||
| BOWEL OBSTRUCTION | 24 | ||
| BOWEL RESECTION | 24 | ||
| BOWEL SOUNDS, ABSENT OR DIMINISHED | 24 | ||
| BOWEL SOUNDS, HYPERACTIVE | 24 | ||
| BOWEL TRAINING | 24 | ||
| BOWEL TRAINING, CHILD | 24 | ||
| BPH (BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY) | 24 | ||
| BRADYCARDIA | 25 | ||
| BRADYPNEA | 25 | ||
| BRAIN INJURY | 25 | ||
| BRAIN SURGERY | 25 | ||
| BRAIN TUMOR | 25 | ||
| BRAXTON HICKS CONTRACTIONS | 25 | ||
| BREAST BIOPSY | 25 | ||
| BREAST CANCER | 25 | ||
| BREAST EXAMINATION, SELF | 26 | ||
| BREAST LUMPS | 26 | ||
| BREAST MILK, INSUFFICIENT | 26 | ||
| BREAST PUMPING | 26 | ||
| BREASTFEEDING, EFFECTIVE | 26 | ||
| BREASTFEEDING, INEFFECTIVE | 26 | ||
| BREASTFEEDING, INTERRUPTED | 26 | ||
| BREATH SOUNDS, DECREASED OR ABSENT | 26 | ||
| BREATHING PATTERN ALTERATION | 26 | ||
| BREECH BIRTH | 26 | ||
| BRONCHITIS | 26 | ||
| BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA | 26 | ||
| BRONCHOSCOPY | 27 | ||
| BRUITS, CAROTID | 27 | ||
| BRYANT’S TRACTION | 27 | ||
| BUCK’S TRACTION | 27 | ||
| BUERGER’S DISEASE | 27 | ||
| BULIMIA | 27 | ||
| BUNION | 27 | ||
| BUNIONECTOMY | 27 | ||
| BURN RISK | 27 | ||
| BURNS | 27 | ||
| BURSITIS | 28 | ||
| BYPASS GRAFT | 28 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: C | e6 | ||
| C | 28 | ||
| CABG (CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING) | 28 | ||
| CACHEXIA | 28 | ||
| CALCIUM ALTERATION | 28 | ||
| CANCER | 28 | ||
| CANDIDIASIS, ORAL | 29 | ||
| CAPILLARY REFILL TIME, PROLONGED | 29 | ||
| CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING | 29 | ||
| CARDIAC ARREST | 29 | ||
| CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION | 29 | ||
| CARDIAC DISORDERS | 29 | ||
| CARDIAC DISORDERS IN PREGNANCY | 29 | ||
| CARDIAC DYSRHYTHMIA | 30 | ||
| CARDIAC OUTPUT, DECREASED | 30 | ||
| CARDIAC TAMPONADE | 30 | ||
| CARDIOGENIC SHOCK | 30 | ||
| CAREGIVER ROLE STRAIN | 30 | ||
| CARIOUS TEETH | 30 | ||
| CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY | 30 | ||
| CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME | 30 | ||
| CARPOPEDAL SPASM | 31 | ||
| CASTS | 31 | ||
| CATARACT EXTRACTION | 31 | ||
| CATARACTS | 31 | ||
| CATATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA | 31 | ||
| CATHETERIZATION, URINARY | 31 | ||
| CAVITIES IN TEETH | 31 | ||
| CELIAC DISEASE | 31 | ||
| CELLULITIS | 31 | ||
| CELLULITIS, PERIORBITAL | 32 | ||
| CENTRAL LINE INSERTION | 32 | ||
| CEREBRAL ANEURYSM | 32 | ||
| CEREBRAL PALSY | 32 | ||
| CEREBRAL PERFUSION | 32 | ||
| CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT (CVA) | 32 | ||
| CERVICITIS | 32 | ||
| CESAREAN DELIVERY | 32 | ||
| CHEMICAL DEPENDENCE | 33 | ||
| CHEMOTHERAPY | 33 | ||
| CHEST PAIN | 33 | ||
| CHEST TUBES | 33 | ||
| CHEYNE-STOKES RESPIRATION | 33 | ||
| CHF (CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE) | 33 | ||
| CHICKENPOX | 34 | ||
| CHILD ABUSE | 34 | ||
| CHILDBEARING PROBLEMS | 34 | ||
| CHILD NEGLECT | 34 | ||
| CHILD WITH CHRONIC CONDITION | 34 | ||
| CHILDBIRTH | 35 | ||
| CHILLS | 35 | ||
| CHLAMYDIA INFECTION | 35 | ||
| CHLOASMA | 35 | ||
| CHOKING OR COUGHING WITH EATING | 36 | ||
| CHOLECYSTECTOMY | 36 | ||
| CHOLELITHIASIS | 36 | ||
| CHORIOAMNIONITIS | 36 | ||
| CHRONIC CONFUSION | 36 | ||
| CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA | 36 | ||
| CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) | 36 | ||
| CHRONIC PAIN | 36 | ||
| CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE | 36 | ||
| CHVOSTEK’S SIGN | 36 | ||
| CIRCUMCISION | 36 | ||
| CIRRHOSIS | 36 | ||
| CLEFT LIP/CLEFT PALATE | 37 | ||
| CLOTTING DISORDER | 37 | ||
| COCAINE ABUSE | 37 | ||
| COCAINE BABY | 37 | ||
| CODEPENDENCY | 37 | ||
| COLD, VIRAL | 38 | ||
| COLECTOMY | 38 | ||
| COLITIS | 38 | ||
| COLLAGEN DISEASE | 38 | ||
| COLOSTOMY | 38 | ||
| COLPORRHAPHY, ANTERIOR | 38 | ||
| COMA | 38 | ||
| COMFORT, LOSS OF | 39 | ||
| COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, CHILDHOOD (E.G., MEASLES, MUMPS, RUBELLA, CHICKENPOX, SCABIES, LICE, IMPETIGO) | 39 | ||
| COMMUNICATION | 39 | ||
| COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS | 39 | ||
| COMMUNITY COPING | 39 | ||
| COMMUNITY HEALTH PROBLEMS | 39 | ||
| COMPARTMENT SYNDROME | 39 | ||
| COMPULSION | 39 | ||
| CONDUCTION DISORDERS (CARDIAC) | 39 | ||
| CONFUSION, ACUTE | 39 | ||
| CONFUSION, CHRONIC | 39 | ||
| CONFUSION, POSSIBLE | 40 | ||
| CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE/CARDIAC ANOMALIES | 40 | ||
| CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (CHF) | 40 | ||
| CONJUNCTIVITIS | 40 | ||
| CONSCIOUSNESS, ALTERED LEVEL OF | 40 | ||
| CONSTIPATION | 41 | ||
| CONSTIPATION, PERCEIVED | 41 | ||
| CONSTIPATION, RISK FOR | 41 | ||
| CONTAMINATION | 41 | ||
| CONTINENT ILEOSTOMY (KOCK POUCH) | 41 | ||
| CONTRACEPTIVE METHOD | 41 | ||
| CONVULSIONS | 41 | ||
| COPD (CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE) | 41 | ||
| COPING | 42 | ||
| COPING PROBLEMS | 42 | ||
| CORNEAL REFLEX, ABSENT | 42 | ||
| CORNEAL TRANSPLANT | 42 | ||
| CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING (CABG) | 42 | ||
| COSTOVERTEBRAL ANGLE TENDERNESS | 42 | ||
| COUGH, INEFFECTIVE | 42 | ||
| CRACK ABUSE | 42 | ||
| CRACK BABY | 42 | ||
| CRACKLES IN LUNGS, COARSE | 42 | ||
| CRACKLES IN LUNGS, FINE | 43 | ||
| CRANIECTOMY/CRANIOTOMY | 43 | ||
| CREPITATION, SUBCUTANEOUS | 43 | ||
| CRISIS | 43 | ||
| CROHN’S DISEASE | 43 | ||
| CROUP | 43 | ||
| CRYOSURGERY FOR RETINAL DETACHMENT | 43 | ||
| CUSHING’S SYNDROME | 43 | ||
| CUTS (WOUNDS) | 44 | ||
| CVA (CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT) | 44 | ||
| CYANOSIS, CENTRAL WITH CYANOSIS OF ORAL MUCOUS MEMBRANES | 44 | ||
| CYANOSIS, PERIPHERAL WITH CYANOSIS OF NAIL BEDS | 44 | ||
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS | 45 | ||
| CYSTITIS | 45 | ||
| CYSTOCELE | 45 | ||
| CYSTOSCOPY | 45 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: D | e9 | ||
| D | 45 | ||
| DEAFNESS | 45 | ||
| DEATH | 45 | ||
| DEATH, ONCOMING | 45 | ||
| DECISIONS, DIFFICULTY MAKING | 46 | ||
| DECUBITUS ULCER | 46 | ||
| DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS (DVT) | 46 | ||
| DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR | 46 | ||
| DEHISCENCE, ABDOMINAL | 46 | ||
| DEHYDRATION | 46 | ||
| DELIRIUM | 46 | ||
| DELIRIUM TREMENS (DT) | 46 | ||
| DELIVERY | 46 | ||
| DELUSIONS | 46 | ||
| DEMENTIA | 47 | ||
| DENIAL OF HEALTH STATUS | 47 | ||
| DENTAL CARIES | 47 | ||
| DEPRESSION (MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER) | 47 | ||
| DERMATITIS | 48 | ||
| DESPONDENCY | 48 | ||
| DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR TOWARD OTHERS | 48 | ||
| DEVELOPMENTAL CONCERNS | 48 | ||
| DIABETES IN PREGNANCY | 48 | ||
| DIABETES INSIPIDUS | 48 | ||
| DIABETES MELLITUS | 48 | ||
| DIABETES MELLITUS, JUVENILE (IDDM TYPE 1) | 49 | ||
| DIABETIC COMA | 49 | ||
| DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS | 49 | ||
| DIABETIC RETINOPATHY | 49 | ||
| DIALYSIS | 49 | ||
| DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA | 49 | ||
| DIARRHEA | 49 | ||
| DIC (DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION) | 49 | ||
| DIGITALIS TOXICITY | 50 | ||
| DIGNITY, LOSS OF | 50 | ||
| DILATION AND CURETTAGE (D&C) | 50 | ||
| DIRTY BODY (FOR PROLONGED PERIOD) | 50 | ||
| DISCHARGE PLANNING | 50 | ||
| DISCOMFORTS OF PREGNANCY | 50 | ||
| DISLOCATION OF JOINT | 50 | ||
| DISSECTING ANEURYSM | 50 | ||
| DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION (DIC) | 50 | ||
| DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER (NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED) | 51 | ||
| DISTRESS | 51 | ||
| DISUSE SYNDROME, POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP | 51 | ||
| DIVERSIONAL ACTIVITY, LACK OF | 51 | ||
| DIVERTICULITIS | 51 | ||
| DIZZINESS | 51 | ||
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | 51 | ||
| DOWN SYNDROME | 51 | ||
| DRESS SELF (INABILITY TO) | 52 | ||
| DRIBBLING OF URINE | 52 | ||
| DROOLING | 52 | ||
| DROPOUT FROM SCHOOL | 52 | ||
| DRUG ABUSE | 52 | ||
| DRUG WITHDRAWAL | 52 | ||
| DRY EYE | 52 | ||
| DT (DELIRIUM TREMENS) | 52 | ||
| DVT (DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS) | 52 | ||
| DYING CLIENT | 53 | ||
| DYSFUNCTIONAL EATING PATTERN | 53 | ||
| DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY UNIT | 53 | ||
| DYSFUNCTIONAL VENTILATORY WEANING | 53 | ||
| DYSMENORRHEA | 53 | ||
| DYSPAREUNIA | 53 | ||
| DYSPEPSIA | 53 | ||
| DYSPHAGIA | 53 | ||
| DYSPHASIA | 53 | ||
| DYSPNEA | 53 | ||
| DYSRHYTHMIA | 53 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: E | e11 | ||
| E | 54 | ||
| EARACHE | 54 | ||
| ECMO (EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATOR) | 54 | ||
| E. COLI INFECTION | 54 | ||
| EAR SURGERY | 54 | ||
| DYSTHYMIC DISORDER | 54 | ||
| DYSTOCIA | 54 | ||
| DYSURIA | 54 | ||
| ECLAMPSIA | 55 | ||
| ECT (ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY) | 55 | ||
| ECTOPIC PREGNANCY | 55 | ||
| ECZEMA | 55 | ||
| ED (ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION) | 55 | ||
| Edema | 55 | ||
| ELDER ABUSE | 56 | ||
| ELDERLY | 56 | ||
| ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY | 56 | ||
| ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE | 56 | ||
| EMACIATED PERSON | 56 | ||
| EMBOLECTOMY | 56 | ||
| Emboli | 56 | ||
| EMBOLISM IN LEG OR ARM | 56 | ||
| EMESIS | 56 | ||
| EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS | 56 | ||
| EMPATHY | 56 | ||
| EMPHYSEMA | 56 | ||
| EMPTINESS | 56 | ||
| ENCEPHALITIS | 56 | ||
| ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT | 56 | ||
| ENDOCARDITIS | 56 | ||
| ENDOMETRIOSIS | 57 | ||
| ENDOMETRITIS | 57 | ||
| ENURESIS | 57 | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION PROBLEMS | 57 | ||
| EPIDIDYMITIS | 57 | ||
| EPIGLOTTITIS | 57 | ||
| Epilepsy | 57 | ||
| EPISIOTOMY | 57 | ||
| EPISTAXIS | 57 | ||
| EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS | 57 | ||
| Erectile Dysfunction (ED) | 57 | ||
| ESOPHAGEAL VARICES | 58 | ||
| ESOPHAGITIS | 58 | ||
| ETOH WITHDRAWAL | 58 | ||
| Evisceration | 58 | ||
| Exhaustion | 58 | ||
| EXPOSURE TO HOT OR COLD ENVIRONMENT | 58 | ||
| EXTERNAL FIXATION | 58 | ||
| EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATOR (ECMO) | 58 | ||
| EYE DISCOMFORT | 58 | ||
| EYE SURGERY | 58 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: F | e12 | ||
| F | 58 | ||
| FAILURE TO THRIVE, ADULT | 58 | ||
| FAILURE TO THRIVE, CHILD | 58 | ||
| FALLS, RISK FOR | 59 | ||
| FAMILY PROBLEMS | 59 | ||
| FAMILY PROCESS | 59 | ||
| FATIGUE | 59 | ||
| FEAR | 59 | ||
| FEBRILE SEIZURES | 59 | ||
| FECAL IMPACTION | 59 | ||
| FECAL INCONTINENCE | 59 | ||
| FEEDING PROBLEMS, NEWBORN | 59 | ||
| FEMORAL POPLITEAL BYPASS | 60 | ||
| FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME | 60 | ||
| FETAL DISTRESS/NONREASSURING FETAL HEART RATE PATTERN | 60 | ||
| FEVER | 60 | ||
| FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE | 60 | ||
| FILTHY HOME ENVIRONMENT | 60 | ||
| FINANCIAL CRISIS IN THE HOME ENVIRONMENT | 60 | ||
| FISTULECTOMY | 60 | ||
| FLAIL CHEST | 60 | ||
| FLASHBACKS | 60 | ||
| FLAT AFFECT | 60 | ||
| FLESH-EATING BACTERIA (NECROTIZING FASCIITIS) | 60 | ||
| FLUID BALANCE | 60 | ||
| FLUID VOLUME DEFICIT | 60 | ||
| FLUID VOLUME EXCESS | 60 | ||
| FLUID VOLUME IMBALANCE, RISK FOR | 61 | ||
| FOOD ALLERGIES | 61 | ||
| FOODBORNE ILLNESS | 61 | ||
| FOOD INTOLERANCE | 61 | ||
| FOREIGN BODY ASPIRATION | 61 | ||
| FORMULA FEEDING OF INFANT | 61 | ||
| FRACTURE | 61 | ||
| FRACTURED HIP | 61 | ||
| FREQUENCY OF URINATION | 61 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: G | e13 | ||
| G | 62 | ||
| GAG REFLEX, DEPRESSED OR ABSENT | 62 | ||
| GALLOP RHYTHM | 62 | ||
| GALLSTONES | 62 | ||
| GANG MEMBER | 62 | ||
| GANGRENE | 62 | ||
| GAS EXCHANGE, IMPAIRED | 62 | ||
| GASTRIC ULCER | 62 | ||
| GASTRITIS | 62 | ||
| GASTROENTERITIS | 62 | ||
| FRIENDSHIP | 62 | ||
| FROSTBITE | 62 | ||
| FROTHY SPUTUM | 62 | ||
| FUSION, LUMBAR | 62 | ||
| GASTROENTERITIS, CHILD | 63 | ||
| GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX | 63 | ||
| GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX, CHILD | 63 | ||
| GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING (GI BLEED) | 63 | ||
| GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE | 63 | ||
| GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY | 63 | ||
| GASTROSCHISIS/OMPHALOCELE | 63 | ||
| GASTROSTOMY | 64 | ||
| GENITAL HERPES | 64 | ||
| GENITAL WARTS | 64 | ||
| GERD | 64 | ||
| GESTATIONAL DIABETES (DIABETES IN PREGNANCY) | 64 | ||
| GI BLEED (GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING) | 64 | ||
| GINGIVITIS | 64 | ||
| GLAUCOMA | 64 | ||
| GLOMERULONEPHRITIS | 64 | ||
| GLUTEN ALLERGY | 64 | ||
| GONORRHEA | 64 | ||
| GOUT | 65 | ||
| GRANDIOSITY | 65 | ||
| GRAND MAL SEIZURE | 65 | ||
| GRANDPARENTS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN | 65 | ||
| GRAVES’ DISEASE | 65 | ||
| GRIEVING | 65 | ||
| GRIEVING, COMPLICATED | 65 | ||
| GROOM SELF (INABILITY TO) | 65 | ||
| GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT LAG | 65 | ||
| GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME | 65 | ||
| GUILT | 65 | ||
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| H | 66 | ||
| H1N1 | 66 | ||
| HAIR LOSS | 66 | ||
| HALITOSIS | 66 | ||
| HALLUCINATIONS | 66 | ||
| HEAD INJURY | 66 | ||
| HEADACHE | 66 | ||
| HEALTH BEHAVIOR, RISK-PRONE | 66 | ||
| HEALTH MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS | 66 | ||
| HEALTH-SEEKING PERSON | 67 | ||
| HEARING IMPAIRMENT | 67 | ||
| HEART ATTACK | 67 | ||
| HEARTBURN | 67 | ||
| HEART FAILURE | 67 | ||
| HEART SURGERY | 67 | ||
| HEAT STROKE | 67 | ||
| HEMATEMESIS | 67 | ||
| HEMATURIA | 67 | ||
| HEMIANOPIA | 67 | ||
| HEMIPLEGIA | 67 | ||
| HEMODIALYSIS | 67 | ||
| HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING | 68 | ||
| HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME | 68 | ||
| HEMOPHILIA | 68 | ||
| HEMOPTYSIS | 68 | ||
| HEMORRHAGE | 68 | ||
| HEMORRHOIDECTOMY | 68 | ||
| HEMORRHOIDS | 68 | ||
| HEMOTHORAX | 69 | ||
| HEPATITIS | 69 | ||
| HERNIA | 69 | ||
| HERNIATED DISK | 69 | ||
| HERNIORRHAPHY | 69 | ||
| HERPES IN PREGNANCY | 69 | ||
| HERPES SIMPLEX I | 69 | ||
| HERPES SIMPLEX II | 69 | ||
| HERPES ZOSTER | 69 | ||
| HHNC (HYPEROSMOLAR HYPERGLYCEMIC NONKETOTIC COMA) | 69 | ||
| HIATAL HERNIA | 69 | ||
| HIP FRACTURE | 69 | ||
| HIP REPLACEMENT | 70 | ||
| HIRSCHSPRUNG’S DISEASE | 70 | ||
| HIRSUTISM | 70 | ||
| HITTING BEHAVIOR | 70 | ||
| HIV (HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS) | 70 | ||
| HODGKIN’S DISEASE | 70 | ||
| HOMELESSNESS | 70 | ||
| HOME MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS | 70 | ||
| HOPE | 71 | ||
| HOPELESSNESS | 71 | ||
| HOSPITALIZED CHILD | 71 | ||
| HOSTILE BEHAVIOR | 71 | ||
| HTN (HYPERTENSION) | 71 | ||
| HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) | 71 | ||
| HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE | 72 | ||
| HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE | 72 | ||
| HYDROCELE | 72 | ||
| HYDROCEPHALUS | 72 | ||
| HYGIENE, INABILITY TO PROVIDE OWN | 72 | ||
| HYPERACTIVE SYNDROME | 72 | ||
| HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA | 73 | ||
| HYPERCALCEMIA | 73 | ||
| HYPERCAPNIA | 73 | ||
| HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM | 73 | ||
| HYPERGLYCEMIA | 73 | ||
| HYPERKALEMIA | 73 | ||
| HYPERNATREMIA | 73 | ||
| HYPEROSMOLAR HYPERGLYCEMIC NONKETOTIC COMA (HHNC) | 73 | ||
| HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA | 74 | ||
| HYPERSENSITIVITY TO SLIGHT CRITICISM | 74 | ||
| HYPERTENSION (HTN) | 74 | ||
| HYPERTHERMIA | 74 | ||
| HYPERTHYROIDISM | 74 | ||
| HYPERVENTILATION | 74 | ||
| HYPOCALCEMIA | 74 | ||
| HYPOGLYCEMIA | 74 | ||
| HYPOKALEMIA | 74 | ||
| HYPOMAGNESEMIA | 74 | ||
| HYPOMANIA | 74 | ||
| HYPONATREMIA | 74 | ||
| HYPOPLASTIC LEFT LUNG | 75 | ||
| HYPOTENSION | 75 | ||
| HYPOTHERMIA | 75 | ||
| HYPOTHYROIDISM | 75 | ||
| HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK | 75 | ||
| HYPOXIA | 75 | ||
| HYSTERECTOMY | 75 | ||
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| I | 75 | ||
| IBS (IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME) | 75 | ||
| ICD (IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER/DEFIBRILLATOR) | 76 | ||
| IDDM (INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES) | 76 | ||
| IDENTITY DISTURBANCE/PROBLEMS | 76 | ||
| IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA (ITP) | 76 | ||
| ILEAL CONDUIT | 76 | ||
| ILEOSTOMY | 76 | ||
| ILEUS | 76 | ||
| IMMOBILITY | 76 | ||
| IMMUNIZATION | 77 | ||
| IMMUNOSUPPRESSION | 77 | ||
| IMPACTION OF STOOL | 77 | ||
| IMPERFORATE ANUS | 77 | ||
| IMPETIGO | 77 | ||
| IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER/DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) | 77 | ||
| IMPOTENCE | 77 | ||
| IMPULSIVENESS | 77 | ||
| INACTIVITY | 77 | ||
| INCOMPETENT CERVIX | 77 | ||
| INCONTINENCE OF STOOL | 77 | ||
| INCONTINENCE OF URINE | 78 | ||
| INDIGESTION | 78 | ||
| INDUCTION OF LABOR | 78 | ||
| INFANT APNEA | 78 | ||
| INFANT BEHAVIOR | 78 | ||
| INFANT CARE | 78 | ||
| INFANT FEEDING PATTERN, INEFFECTIVE | 78 | ||
| INFANT OF DIABETIC MOTHER | 78 | ||
| INFANT OF SUBSTANCE-ABUSING MOTHER (FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME, CRACK BABY, OTHER DRUG WITHDRAWAL INFANTS) | 79 | ||
| INFANTILE POLYARTERITIS | 79 | ||
| INFECTION | 79 | ||
| INFECTION, POTENTIAL FOR | 80 | ||
| INFERTILITY | 80 | ||
| INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (CHILD AND ADULT) | 80 | ||
| INFLUENZA | 80 | ||
| INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR | 80 | ||
| INJURY | 80 | ||
| INSANITY | 80 | ||
| INSOMNIA | 80 | ||
| INSULIN SHOCK | 80 | ||
| INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION | 80 | ||
| INTERNAL CARDIOVERTER/DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) | 81 | ||
| INTERNAL FIXATION | 81 | ||
| INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS | 81 | ||
| INTERVERTEBRAL DISK EXCISION | 81 | ||
| INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION | 81 | ||
| INTESTINAL PERFORATION | 81 | ||
| INTOXICATION | 81 | ||
| INTRAAORTIC BALLOON COUNTERPULSATION | 81 | ||
| INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE, INCREASED | 81 | ||
| INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION | 81 | ||
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| J | 82 | ||
| JAUNDICE | 82 | ||
| JAUNDICE, NEONATAL | 82 | ||
| INTRAVENOUS THERAPY | 82 | ||
| INTUBATION, ENDOTRACHEAL OR NASOGASTRIC | 82 | ||
| IODINE REACTION WITH DIAGNOSTIC TESTING | 82 | ||
| IRREGULAR PULSE | 82 | ||
| IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS) | 82 | ||
| ISOLATION | 82 | ||
| ITCHING | 82 | ||
| ITP (IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA) | 82 | ||
| JAW PAIN AND HEART ATTACKS | 83 | ||
| JAW SURGERY | 83 | ||
| JITTERY | 83 | ||
| JOCK ITCH | 83 | ||
| JOINT DISLOCATION | 83 | ||
| JOINT PAIN | 83 | ||
| JOINT REPLACEMENT | 83 | ||
| JRA (JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS) | 83 | ||
| JUVENILE ONSET DIABETES | 83 | ||
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| K | 84 | ||
| KAPOSI’S SARCOMA | 84 | ||
| KAWASAKI DISEASE | 84 | ||
| KEGEL EXERCISE | 84 | ||
| KELOIDS | 84 | ||
| KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA (DRY EYE SYNDROME) | 84 | ||
| KERATOPLASTY | 84 | ||
| KETOACIDOSIS, ALCOHOLIC | 84 | ||
| KETOACIDOSIS, DIABETIC | 84 | ||
| KEYHOLE HEART SURGERY | 85 | ||
| KIDNEY DISEASE SCREENING | 85 | ||
| KIDNEY FAILURE | 85 | ||
| KIDNEY STONE | 85 | ||
| KIDNEY TRANSPLANT | 85 | ||
| KIDNEY TUMOR | 85 | ||
| KISSING DISEASE | 85 | ||
| KNEE REPLACEMENT | 85 | ||
| KNOWLEDGE | 85 | ||
| KNOWLEDGE, DEFICIENT | 85 | ||
| KOCK POUCH | 85 | ||
| KORSAKOFF’S SYNDROME | 85 | ||
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| L | 86 | ||
| LABOR, INDUCTION OF | 86 | ||
| LABOR, NORMAL | 86 | ||
| LABYRINTHITIS | 86 | ||
| LACERATIONS | 86 | ||
| LACTATION | 86 | ||
| LACTIC ACIDOSIS | 86 | ||
| LACTOSE INTOLERANCE | 86 | ||
| LAMINECTOMY | 87 | ||
| LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT | 87 | ||
| LAPAROSCOPIC LASER CHOLECYSTECTOMY | 87 | ||
| LAPAROSCOPY | 87 | ||
| LAPAROTOMY | 87 | ||
| LARGE BOWEL RESECTION | 87 | ||
| LARYNGECTOMY | 87 | ||
| LASER SURGERY | 88 | ||
| LASIK EYE SURGERY (LASER-ASSISTED IN SITU KERATOMILEUSIS) | 88 | ||
| LATEX ALLERGY | 88 | ||
| LAXATIVE ABUSE | 88 | ||
| LEAD POISONING | 88 | ||
| LEFT HEART CATHETERIZATION | 88 | ||
| LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE | 88 | ||
| LENS IMPLANT | 88 | ||
| LETHARGY/LISTLESSNESS | 88 | ||
| LEUKEMIA | 88 | ||
| LEUKOPENIA | 88 | ||
| LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS, DECREASED | 89 | ||
| LICE | 89 | ||
| LIFESTYLE, SEDENTARY | 89 | ||
| LIGHTHEADEDNESS | 89 | ||
| LIMB REATTACHMENT PROCEDURES | 89 | ||
| LIPOSUCTION | 89 | ||
| LITHOTRIPSY | 89 | ||
| LIVER BIOPSY | 89 | ||
| LIVER CANCER | 89 | ||
| LIVER DISEASE | 90 | ||
| LIVER FUNCTION | 90 | ||
| LIVER TRANSPLANT | 90 | ||
| LIVING WILL | 90 | ||
| LOBECTOMY | 90 | ||
| LONELINESS | 90 | ||
| LOOSE STOOLS (BOWEL MOVEMENTS) | 90 | ||
| LOSS OF BLADDER CONTROL | 90 | ||
| LOSS OF BOWEL CONTROL | 90 | ||
| LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE | 90 | ||
| LOW BACK PAIN | 90 | ||
| LOW BLOOD PRESSURE | 91 | ||
| LOW BLOOD SUGAR | 91 | ||
| LOWER GI BLEEDING | 91 | ||
| LUMBAR PUNCTURE | 91 | ||
| LUMPECTOMY | 91 | ||
| LUNG CANCER | 91 | ||
| LUNG SURGERY | 91 | ||
| LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS | 91 | ||
| LYME DISEASE | 91 | ||
| LYMPHEDEMA | 91 | ||
| LYMPHOMA | 92 | ||
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| M | 92 | ||
| MACULAR DEGENERATION | 92 | ||
| MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) | 92 | ||
| MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER | 92 | ||
| MALABSORPTION SYNDROME | 92 | ||
| MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR | 92 | ||
| MALAISE | 92 | ||
| MALARIA | 93 | ||
| MALE INFERTILITY | 93 | ||
| MALIGNANCY | 93 | ||
| MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION (ARTERIOLAR NEPHROSCLEROSIS) | 93 | ||
| MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA | 93 | ||
| MALNUTRITION | 93 | ||
| MAMMOGRAPHY | 93 | ||
| MANIC DISORDER, BIPOLAR I | 94 | ||
| MANIPULATION OF ORGANS, SURGICAL INCISION | 94 | ||
| MANIPULATIVE BEHAVIOR | 94 | ||
| MARASMUS | 94 | ||
| MARFAN SYNDROME | 94 | ||
| MARSHALL-MARCHETTI-KRANTZ OPERATION | 95 | ||
| MASTECTOMY | 95 | ||
| MASTITIS | 95 | ||
| MATERNAL INFECTION | 95 | ||
| MATURATIONAL ISSUES, ADOLESCENT | 95 | ||
| MAZE III PROCEDURE | 96 | ||
| MD (MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY) | 96 | ||
| MEASLES (RUBEOLA) | 96 | ||
| MECONIUM ASPIRATION | 96 | ||
| MECONIUM DELAYED | 96 | ||
| MELANOMA | 96 | ||
| MELENA | 96 | ||
| MEMORY DEFICIT | 96 | ||
| MÉNIÈRE’S DISEASE | 96 | ||
| MENINGITIS/ENCEPHALITIS | 96 | ||
| MENINGOCELE | 97 | ||
| MENOPAUSE | 97 | ||
| MENORRHAGIA | 97 | ||
| MENTAL ILLNESS | 97 | ||
| MENTAL RETARDATION | 98 | ||
| METABOLIC ACIDOSIS | 98 | ||
| METABOLIC ALKALOSIS | 98 | ||
| METASTASIS | 98 | ||
| METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA) | 98 | ||
| MI (MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION) | 98 | ||
| MIDCAB (MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIRECT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS) | 99 | ||
| MIDLIFE CRISIS | 99 | ||
| MIGRAINE HEADACHE | 99 | ||
| MILK INTOLERANCE | 99 | ||
| MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIRECT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS (MIDCAB) | 99 | ||
| MISCARRIAGE | 99 | ||
| MITRAL STENOSIS | 100 | ||
| MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE | 100 | ||
| MOBILITY, IMPAIRED BED | 100 | ||
| MOBILITY, IMPAIRED PHYSICAL | 100 | ||
| MOBILITY, IMPAIRED WHEELCHAIR | 100 | ||
| MODIFIED RADICAL MASTECTOMY | 100 | ||
| MONONUCLEOSIS | 100 | ||
| MOOD DISORDERS | 101 | ||
| MOON FACE | 101 | ||
| MORAL/ETHICAL DILEMMAS | 101 | ||
| MORNING SICKNESS | 101 | ||
| MOTION SICKNESS | 101 | ||
| MOTTLING OF PERIPHERAL SKIN | 101 | ||
| MOURNING | 101 | ||
| MOUTH LESIONS | 101 | ||
| MRI (MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING) | 101 | ||
| MRSA (METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS) | 101 | ||
| MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME | 102 | ||
| MUCOUS MEMBRANE, IMPAIRED ORAL | 102 | ||
| MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA | 102 | ||
| MULTIPLE GESTATION | 102 | ||
| MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER (DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER) | 102 | ||
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS) | 102 | ||
| MUMPS | 103 | ||
| MURMURS | 103 | ||
| MUSCULAR ATROPHY/WEAKNESS | 103 | ||
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (MD) | 103 | ||
| MVA (MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT) | 104 | ||
| MYASTHENIA GRAVIS | 104 | ||
| MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA | 104 | ||
| MYELOCELE | 104 | ||
| MYELOGRAM, CONTRAST | 104 | ||
| MYELOMENINGOCELE | 104 | ||
| MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (MI) | 105 | ||
| MYOCARDITIS | 105 | ||
| MYRINGOTOMY | 105 | ||
| MYXEDEMA | 105 | ||
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| N | 105 | ||
| NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER | 105 | ||
| NARCOLEPSY | 105 | ||
| NARCOTIC USE | 105 | ||
| NASOGASTRIC SUCTION | 105 | ||
| NAUSEA | 105 | ||
| NEAR-DROWNING | 106 | ||
| NEARSIGHTEDNESS | 106 | ||
| NEARSIGHTEDNESS; CORNEAL SURGERY | 106 | ||
| NECK VEIN DISTENTION | 106 | ||
| NECROSIS, RENAL TUBULAR; ATN (ACUTE TUBULAR NECROSIS); NECROSIS, ACUTE TUBULAR | 106 | ||
| NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS (NEC) | 106 | ||
| NECROTIZING FASCIITIS (FLESH-EATING BACTERIA) | 107 | ||
| NEGATIVE FEELINGS ABOUT SELF | 107 | ||
| NEGLECT, UNILATERAL | 107 | ||
| NEGLECTFUL CARE OF FAMILY MEMBER | 107 | ||
| NEONATAL JAUNDICE | 107 | ||
| NEONATE | 107 | ||
| NEOPLASM | 107 | ||
| NEPHRECTOMY | 107 | ||
| NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS | 108 | ||
| NEPHROTIC SYNDROME | 108 | ||
| NERVE ENTRAPMENT | 108 | ||
| NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS (MENINGOCELE, MYELOMENINGOCELE, SPINA BIFIDA, ANENCEPHALY) | 108 | ||
| NEURALGIA | 108 | ||
| NEURITIS (PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY) | 108 | ||
| NEUROFIBROMATOSIS | 109 | ||
| NEUROGENIC BLADDER | 109 | ||
| NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS | 109 | ||
| NEUROPATHY, PERIPHERAL | 110 | ||
| NEUROSURGERY | 110 | ||
| NEWBORN, NORMAL | 110 | ||
| NEWBORN, POSTMATURE | 110 | ||
| NEWBORN, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE (SGA) | 110 | ||
| NICOTINE ADDICTION | 111 | ||
| NIDDM (NON–INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS) | 111 | ||
| NIGHTMARES | 111 | ||
| NIPPLE SORENESS | 111 | ||
| NOCTURIA | 111 | ||
| NOCTURNAL MYOCLONUS | 111 | ||
| NOCTURNAL PAROXYSMAL DYSPNEA | 111 | ||
| NONCOMPLIANCE | 111 | ||
| NON-INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS (NIDDM) | 111 | ||
| NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS (NPH) | 111 | ||
| NORWALK VIRUS | 111 | ||
| NSTEMI (NON–ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION) | 111 | ||
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| O | 112 | ||
| OBESITY | 112 | ||
| OBS (ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME) | 112 | ||
| OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD) | 112 | ||
| OBSTRUCTION, BOWEL | 112 | ||
| OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA | 112 | ||
| OCD (OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER) | 112 | ||
| ODD (OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER) | 112 | ||
| NURSING | 112 | ||
| NUTRITION | 112 | ||
| NUTRITION, IMBALANCED | 112 | ||
| OLDER ADULT | 113 | ||
| OLIGURIA | 113 | ||
| OMPHALOCELE | 113 | ||
| OOPHORECTOMY | 113 | ||
| OPCAB (OFF-PUMP CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS) | 113 | ||
| OPEN HEART SURGERY | 113 | ||
| OPEN REDUCTION OF FRACTURE WITH INTERNAL FIXATION (FEMUR) | 113 | ||
| OPIATE USE | 113 | ||
| OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION | 113 | ||
| OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER (ODD) | 114 | ||
| ORAL MUCOUS MEMBRANE, IMPAIRED | 114 | ||
| ORAL THRUSH | 114 | ||
| ORCHITIS | 114 | ||
| ORGANIC MENTAL DISORDERS | 114 | ||
| ORTHOPEDIC TRACTION | 114 | ||
| ORTHOPNEA | 114 | ||
| ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION | 114 | ||
| OSTEOARTHRITIS | 114 | ||
| OSTEOMYELITIS | 114 | ||
| OSTEOPOROSIS | 115 | ||
| OSTOMY | 115 | ||
| OTITIS MEDIA | 115 | ||
| OVARIAN CARCINOMA | 115 | ||
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| P | 115 | ||
| PACEMAKER | 115 | ||
| PAGET’S DISEASE | 115 | ||
| PAIN, ACUTE | 116 | ||
| PAIN, CHRONIC | 116 | ||
| PAINFUL BREASTS, ENGORGEMENT | 116 | ||
| PAINFUL BREASTS, SORE NIPPLES | 116 | ||
| PALLOR OF EXTREMITIES | 116 | ||
| PALPITATIONS (HEART PALPITATIONS) | 116 | ||
| PANCREATIC CANCER | 116 | ||
| PANCREATITIS | 116 | ||
| PANIC DISORDER (PANIC ATTACKS) | 117 | ||
| PARALYSIS | 117 | ||
| PARALYTIC ILEUS | 118 | ||
| PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER | 118 | ||
| PARAPLEGIA | 118 | ||
| PARATHYROIDECTOMY | 118 | ||
| PARENT ATTACHMENT | 118 | ||
| PARENTAL ROLE CONFLICT | 118 | ||
| PARENTING | 118 | ||
| PARENTING, IMPAIRED | 119 | ||
| PARENTING, RISK FOR IMPAIRED | 119 | ||
| PARESTHESIA | 119 | ||
| PARKINSON’S DISEASE | 119 | ||
| PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL DYSPNEA (PND) | 119 | ||
| PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS (PDA) | 119 | ||
| PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA (PCA) | 119 | ||
| PATIENT EDUCATION | 119 | ||
| PCA (PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA) | 119 | ||
| PECTUS EXCAVATUM | 120 | ||
| PEDICULOSIS | 120 | ||
| PEG (PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY) | 120 | ||
| PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE (PID) | 120 | ||
| PENILE PROSTHESIS | 120 | ||
| PEPTIC ULCER | 120 | ||
| PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY (PTCA) | 120 | ||
| PERICARDIAL FRICTION RUB | 120 | ||
| PERICARDITIS | 120 | ||
| PERIOPERATIVE POSITIONING | 120 | ||
| PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY | 120 | ||
| PERIPHERAL NEUROVASCULAR DYSFUNCTION | 120 | ||
| PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE (PVD) | 120 | ||
| PERITONEAL DIALYSIS | 121 | ||
| PERITONITIS | 121 | ||
| PERNICIOUS ANEMIA | 121 | ||
| PERSISTENT FETAL CIRCULATION | 121 | ||
| PERSONAL IDENTITY PROBLEMS | 122 | ||
| PERSONALITY DISORDER | 122 | ||
| PERTUSSIS (WHOOPING COUGH) | 122 | ||
| PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION | 122 | ||
| PETECHIAE | 122 | ||
| PETIT MAL SEIZURE | 122 | ||
| PHARYNGITIS | 122 | ||
| PHENYLKETONURIA (PKU) | 122 | ||
| PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA | 122 | ||
| PHLEBITIS | 122 | ||
| PHOBIA (SPECIFIC) | 122 | ||
| PHOTOSENSITIVITY | 122 | ||
| PHYSICAL ABUSE | 123 | ||
| PICA | 123 | ||
| PID (PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) | 123 | ||
| PIH (PREGNANCY-INDUCED HYPERTENSION/PREECLAMPSIA) | 123 | ||
| PILOERECTION | 123 | ||
| PIMPLES | 124 | ||
| PINK EYE | 124 | ||
| PINWORMS | 124 | ||
| PITUITARY CUSHING’S | 124 | ||
| PKU (PHENYLKETONURIA) | 124 | ||
| PLACENTA ABRUPTIO | 124 | ||
| PLACENTA PREVIA | 124 | ||
| PLANTAR FASCIITIS | 125 | ||
| PLEURAL EFFUSION | 125 | ||
| PLEURAL FRICTION RUB | 125 | ||
| PLEURAL TAP | 125 | ||
| PLEURISY | 125 | ||
| PMS (PREMENSTRUAL TENSION SYNDROME) | 125 | ||
| PND (PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL DYSPNEA) | 125 | ||
| PNEUMONECTOMY | 126 | ||
| PNEUMONIA | 126 | ||
| PNEUMOTHORAX | 126 | ||
| POISONING, RISK FOR | 126 | ||
| POLIOMYELITIS | 126 | ||
| POLYDIPSIA | 126 | ||
| POLYPHAGIA | 126 | ||
| POLYURIA | 126 | ||
| POSTOPERATIVE CARE | 126 | ||
| POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION | 126 | ||
| POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE | 127 | ||
| POSTPARTUM, NORMAL CARE | 127 | ||
| POST-TRAUMA SYNDROME | 128 | ||
| POST-TRAUMA SYNDROME, RISK FOR | 128 | ||
| POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) | 128 | ||
| POTASSIUM, INCREASE/DECREASE | 128 | ||
| POWER/POWERLESSNESS | 128 | ||
| PREECLAMPSIA | 128 | ||
| PREGNANCY, CARDIAC DISORDERS | 128 | ||
| PREGNANCY-INDUCED HYPERTENSION/PREECLAMPSIA (PIH) | 128 | ||
| PREGNANCY LOSS | 128 | ||
| PREGNANCY, NORMAL | 129 | ||
| PREMATURE DILATION OF THE CERVIX (INCOMPETENT CERVIX) | 129 | ||
| PREMATURE INFANT (CHILD) | 130 | ||
| PREMATURE INFANT (PARENT) | 130 | ||
| PREMATURE RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES | 131 | ||
| PREMENSTRUAL TENSION SYNDROME (PMS) | 131 | ||
| PRENATAL CARE, NORMAL | 131 | ||
| PRENATAL TESTING | 131 | ||
| PREOPERATIVE TEACHING | 131 | ||
| PRESSURE ULCER | 131 | ||
| PRETERM LABOR | 131 | ||
| PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITY | 132 | ||
| PROJECTION | 132 | ||
| PROLAPSED UMBILICAL CORD | 132 | ||
| PROSTATECTOMY | 132 | ||
| PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY | 132 | ||
| PROSTATITIS | 133 | ||
| PROTECTION, ALTERED | 133 | ||
| PRURITUS | 133 | ||
| PSORIASIS | 133 | ||
| PSYCHOSIS | 133 | ||
| PTCA (PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY) | 133 | ||
| PTSD (POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER) | 133 | ||
| PULMONARY EDEMA | 134 | ||
| PULMONARY EMBOLISM | 134 | ||
| PULMONARY STENOSIS | 134 | ||
| PULSE DEFICIT | 134 | ||
| PULSE OXIMETRY | 134 | ||
| PULSE PRESSURE, INCREASED | 134 | ||
| PULSE PRESSURE, NARROWED | 134 | ||
| PULSES, ABSENT OR DIMINISHED PERIPHERAL | 134 | ||
| PURPURA | 134 | ||
| PYELONEPHRITIS | 134 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: R | e28 | ||
| R | 135 | ||
| RA (RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS) | 135 | ||
| RABIES | 135 | ||
| RADIAL NERVE DYSFUNCTION | 135 | ||
| RADIATION THERAPY | 135 | ||
| RADICAL NECK DISSECTION | 135 | ||
| RAGE | 135 | ||
| PYLORIC STENOSIS | 135 | ||
| PYLOROMYOTOMY (PYLORIC STENOSIS REPAIR) | 135 | ||
| RAPE-TRAUMA SYNDROME | 136 | ||
| RASH | 136 | ||
| RATIONALIZATION | 136 | ||
| RATS, RODENTS IN THE HOME | 136 | ||
| RAYNAUD’S DISEASE | 136 | ||
| RDS (RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME) | 136 | ||
| RECTAL FULLNESS | 136 | ||
| RECTAL LUMP | 136 | ||
| RECTAL PAIN/BLEEDING | 136 | ||
| RECTAL SURGERY | 137 | ||
| RECTOCELE REPAIR | 137 | ||
| REFLEX INCONTINENCE | 137 | ||
| REGRESSION | 137 | ||
| REGRETFUL | 137 | ||
| REHABILITATION | 137 | ||
| RELATIONSHIP | 137 | ||
| RELAXATION TECHNIQUES | 137 | ||
| RELIGIOSITY | 138 | ||
| RELIGIOUS CONCERNS | 138 | ||
| RELOCATION STRESS SYNDROME | 138 | ||
| RENAL FAILURE | 138 | ||
| RENAL FAILURE, ACUTE/CHRONIC, CHILD | 138 | ||
| RENAL FAILURE, NONOLIGURIC | 138 | ||
| RENAL TRANSPLANTATION, DONOR | 139 | ||
| RENAL TRANSPLANTATION, RECIPIENT | 139 | ||
| RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS | 139 | ||
| RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS OF THE NEONATE (RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME [RDS], MECONIUM ASPIRATION, DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA) | 139 | ||
| RESPIRATORY DISTRESS | 139 | ||
| RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME (RDS) | 139 | ||
| RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS, ACUTE CHILDHOOD (CROUP, EPIGLOTTITIS, PERTUSSIS, PNEUMONIA, RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS) | 139 | ||
| RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS | 140 | ||
| RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME | 140 | ||
| RETARDED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT | 140 | ||
| RETCHING | 140 | ||
| RETINAL DETACHMENT | 140 | ||
| RETINOPATHY, DIABETIC | 140 | ||
| RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY (ROP) | 140 | ||
| REYE’S SYNDROME | 140 | ||
| RH FACTOR INCOMPATIBILITY | 141 | ||
| RHABDOMYOLYSIS | 141 | ||
| RHEUMATIC FEVER | 141 | ||
| RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA) | 141 | ||
| RIB FRACTURE | 141 | ||
| RIDICULE OF OTHERS | 141 | ||
| RINGWORM OF BODY | 141 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: S | e29 | ||
| S | 142 | ||
| SAD (SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER) | 142 | ||
| SADNESS | 142 | ||
| SAFE SEX | 142 | ||
| SAFETY, CHILDHOOD | 142 | ||
| RINGWORM OF NAILS | 142 | ||
| RINGWORM OF SCALP | 142 | ||
| RISK FOR RELOCATION STRESS SYNDROME | 142 | ||
| ROACHES, INVASION OF HOME WITH | 142 | ||
| ROLE PERFORMANCE, ALTERED | 142 | ||
| ROP (RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY) | 142 | ||
| RSV (RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS) | 142 | ||
| RUBELLA | 142 | ||
| RUBOR OF EXTREMITIES | 142 | ||
| RUPTURED DISK | 142 | ||
| SALMONELLA | 143 | ||
| SALPINGECTOMY | 143 | ||
| SARCOIDOSIS | 143 | ||
| SARS (SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME) | 143 | ||
| SBE (SELF-BREAST EXAMINATION) | 143 | ||
| SCABIES | 143 | ||
| SCARED | 143 | ||
| SCHIZOPHRENIA | 144 | ||
| SCIATICA | 145 | ||
| SCOLIOSIS | 145 | ||
| SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE | 145 | ||
| SEIZURE DISORDERS, ADULT | 145 | ||
| SEIZURE DISORDERS, CHILDHOOD (EPILEPSY, FEBRILE SEIZURES, INFANTILE SPASMS) | 145 | ||
| SELF-BREAST EXAMINATION (SBE) | 146 | ||
| SELF-CARE | 146 | ||
| SELF-CARE DEFICIT, BATHING | 146 | ||
| SELF-CARE DEFICIT, DRESSING | 146 | ||
| SELF-CARE DEFICIT, FEEDING | 146 | ||
| SELF-CARE DEFICIT, TOILETING | 146 | ||
| SELF-CONCEPT | 146 | ||
| SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR | 146 | ||
| SELF-ESTEEM, CHRONIC LOW | 146 | ||
| SELF-ESTEEM, SITUATIONAL LOW | 146 | ||
| SELF-HEALTH MANAGEMENT, INEFFECTIVE | 146 | ||
| SELF-HEALTH MANAGEMENT, READINESS FOR ENHANCED | 146 | ||
| SELF-MUTILATION, RISK FOR | 146 | ||
| SENILE DEMENTIA | 147 | ||
| SEPARATION ANXIETY | 147 | ||
| SEPSIS, CHILD | 147 | ||
| SEPTICEMIA | 147 | ||
| SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS) | 147 | ||
| SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION | 147 | ||
| SEXUALITY, ADOLESCENT | 147 | ||
| SEXUALITY PATTERN, INEFFECTIVE | 148 | ||
| SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE (STD) | 148 | ||
| SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME | 148 | ||
| SHAKINESS | 148 | ||
| SHAME | 148 | ||
| SHINGLES | 148 | ||
| SHIVERING | 148 | ||
| SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC | 148 | ||
| SHOCK, HYPOVOLEMIC | 148 | ||
| SHOCK, SEPTIC | 148 | ||
| SHOULDER REPAIR | 148 | ||
| SICKLE CELL ANEMIA/CRISIS | 149 | ||
| SIDS (SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME) | 149 | ||
| SITUATIONAL CRISIS | 149 | ||
| SJS (STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME) | 149 | ||
| SKIN CANCER | 149 | ||
| SKIN DISORDERS | 150 | ||
| SKIN INTEGRITY, RISK FOR IMPAIRED | 150 | ||
| SKIN TURGOR, CHANGE IN ELASTICITY | 150 | ||
| SLEEP | 150 | ||
| SLEEP APNEA | 150 | ||
| SLEEP DEPRIVATION | 150 | ||
| SLEEP PATTERN DISORDERS | 150 | ||
| SLEEP PATTERN, DISTURBED, PARENT/CHILD | 150 | ||
| SLURRING OF SPEECH | 150 | ||
| SMALL BOWEL RESECTION | 150 | ||
| SMELL, LOSS OF ABILITY TO | 150 | ||
| SMOKE INHALATION | 150 | ||
| SMOKING BEHAVIOR | 150 | ||
| SOCIAL INTERACTION, IMPAIRED | 151 | ||
| SOCIAL ISOLATION | 151 | ||
| SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY | 151 | ||
| SODIUM, DECREASE/INCREASE | 151 | ||
| SOMATIZATION DISORDER | 151 | ||
| SORE NIPPLES, BREASTFEEDING | 151 | ||
| SORE THROAT | 151 | ||
| SORROW | 151 | ||
| SPASTIC COLON | 151 | ||
| SPEECH DISORDERS | 151 | ||
| SPINA BIFIDA | 151 | ||
| SPINAL CORD INJURY | 151 | ||
| SPINAL FUSION | 152 | ||
| SPIRITUAL DISTRESS | 152 | ||
| SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING | 152 | ||
| SPLENECTOMY | 152 | ||
| SPRAINS | 152 | ||
| STAPEDECTOMY | 152 | ||
| STASIS ULCER | 152 | ||
| STD (SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE) | 152 | ||
| STEMI (ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION) | 152 | ||
| STENT (CORONARY ARTERY STENT) | 153 | ||
| STERILIZATION SURGERY | 153 | ||
| STERTOROUS RESPIRATIONS | 153 | ||
| STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME (SJS) | 153 | ||
| STILLBIRTH | 153 | ||
| STOMA | 153 | ||
| STOMATITIS | 153 | ||
| STONE, KIDNEY | 153 | ||
| STOOL, HARD/DRY | 153 | ||
| STRAINING WITH DEFECATION | 153 | ||
| STREP THROAT | 153 | ||
| STRESS | 153 | ||
| STRESS OVERLOAD | 154 | ||
| STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE | 154 | ||
| STRIDOR | 154 | ||
| STROKE | 154 | ||
| STUTTERING | 154 | ||
| SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE | 154 | ||
| SUBSTANCE ABUSE | 154 | ||
| SUBSTANCE ABUSE, ADOLESCENT | 154 | ||
| SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN PREGNANCY | 155 | ||
| SUCKING REFLEX | 155 | ||
| SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS) | 155 | ||
| SUFFOCATION, RISK FOR | 155 | ||
| SUICIDE ATTEMPT | 155 | ||
| SUPPORT SYSTEM | 155 | ||
| SUPPRESSION OF LABOR | 155 | ||
| SURGERY, PERIOPERATIVE CARE | 156 | ||
| SURGERY, POSTOPERATIVE CARE | 156 | ||
| SURGERY, PREOPERATIVE CARE | 156 | ||
| SURGICAL RECOVERY, DELAYED | 156 | ||
| SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT (SCAN), CHILD | 156 | ||
| SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT (SCAN), PARENT | 157 | ||
| SUSPICION | 157 | ||
| SWALLOWING DIFFICULTIES | 157 | ||
| SWINE FLU (H1N1) | 157 | ||
| SYNCOPE | 157 | ||
| SYPHILIS | 157 | ||
| SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS | 157 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: T | e33 | ||
| T | 157 | ||
| T & A (TONSILLECTOMY AND ADENOIDECTOMY) | 157 | ||
| TACHYCARDIA | 158 | ||
| TACHYPNEA | 158 | ||
| TARDIVE DYSKINESIA | 158 | ||
| TASTE ABNORMALITY | 158 | ||
| TB (PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS) | 158 | ||
| TBI (TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY) | 158 | ||
| TD (TRAVELER’S DIARRHEA) | 158 | ||
| TEMPERATURE, DECREASED | 158 | ||
| TEMPERATURE, INCREASED | 159 | ||
| TEMPERATURE REGULATION, IMPAIRED | 159 | ||
| TEN (TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS) | 159 | ||
| TENSION | 159 | ||
| TERMINALLY ILL ADULT | 159 | ||
| TERMINALLY ILL CHILD, ADOLESCENT | 159 | ||
| TERMINALLY ILL CHILD, INFANT/TODDLER | 159 | ||
| TERMINALLY ILL CHILD, PRESCHOOL CHILD | 159 | ||
| TERMINALLY ILL CHILD, SCHOOL-AGE CHILD/PREADOLESCENT | 159 | ||
| TERMINALLY ILL CHILD/DEATH OF CHILD, PARENT | 159 | ||
| TETRALOGY OF FALLOT | 160 | ||
| TETRAPLEGIA | 160 | ||
| THERAPEUTIC REGIMEN MANAGEMENT, INEFFECTIVE: FAMILY | 160 | ||
| THERAPEUTIC TOUCH | 160 | ||
| THERMAL INJURY, RISK FOR | 160 | ||
| THERMOREGULATION, INEFFECTIVE | 160 | ||
| THORACENTESIS | 160 | ||
| THORACOTOMY | 160 | ||
| THOUGHT DISORDERS | 161 | ||
| THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA | 161 | ||
| THROMBOPHLEBITIS | 161 | ||
| THYROIDECTOMY | 161 | ||
| TIA (TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK) | 161 | ||
| TIC DISORDER | 161 | ||
| TINEA CAPITIS | 161 | ||
| TINEA CORPORIS | 161 | ||
| TINEA CRURIS | 161 | ||
| TINEA PEDIS | 161 | ||
| TINEA UNGUIUM (ONYCHOMYCOSIS) | 161 | ||
| TINNITUS | 162 | ||
| TISSUE DAMAGE, CORNEAL, INTEGUMENTARY, OR SUBCUTANEOUS | 162 | ||
| TISSUE PERFUSION, INEFFECTIVE PERIPHERAL | 162 | ||
| TOILETING PROBLEMS | 162 | ||
| TOILET TRAINING | 162 | ||
| TONSILLECTOMY AND ADENOIDECTOMY (T & A) | 162 | ||
| TOOTHACHE | 162 | ||
| TOTAL ANOMALOUS PULMONARY VENOUS RETURN | 162 | ||
| TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT (TOTAL HIP/TOTAL KNEE/SHOULDER) | 162 | ||
| TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION (TPN) | 162 | ||
| TOURETTE’S SYNDROME (TS) | 162 | ||
| TOXEMIA | 162 | ||
| TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS (TEN) (ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME) | 162 | ||
| TPN (TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION) | 163 | ||
| TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA | 163 | ||
| TRACHEOSTOMY | 163 | ||
| TRACTION AND CASTS | 163 | ||
| TRANSFER ABILITY | 163 | ||
| TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK (TIA) | 163 | ||
| TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS | 163 | ||
| TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF THE PROSTATE (TURP) | 163 | ||
| TRAUMA IN PREGNANCY | 163 | ||
| TRAUMA, RISK FOR | 164 | ||
| TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) | 164 | ||
| TRAUMATIC EVENT | 164 | ||
| TRAVELER’S DIARRHEA (TD) | 164 | ||
| TREMBLING OF HANDS | 164 | ||
| TRICUSPID ATRESIA | 164 | ||
| TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA | 164 | ||
| TRUNCUS ARTERIOSUS | 164 | ||
| TS (TOURETTE’S SYNDROME) | 164 | ||
| TSE (TESTICULAR SELF-EXAMINATION) | 164 | ||
| TUBAL LIGATION | 164 | ||
| TUBE FEEDING | 164 | ||
| TUBERCULOSIS (TB) | 164 | ||
| TURP (TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF THE PROSTATE) | 164 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: U | e35 | ||
| U | 165 | ||
| ULCER, PEPTIC (DUODENAL OR GASTRIC) | 165 | ||
| ULCERATIVE COLITIS | 165 | ||
| ULCERS, STASIS | 165 | ||
| UNILATERAL NEGLECT OF ONE SIDE OF BODY | 165 | ||
| UNSANITARY LIVING CONDITIONS | 165 | ||
| URGENCY TO URINATE | 165 | ||
| URINARY DIVERSION | 165 | ||
| URINARY ELIMINATION, IMPAIRED | 165 | ||
| URINARY INCONTINENCE | 165 | ||
| URINARY READINESS | 165 | ||
| URINARY RETENTION | 165 | ||
| URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI) | 165 | ||
| UROLITHIASIS | 165 | ||
| UTERINE ATONY IN LABOR | 165 | ||
| UTERINE ATONY IN POSTPARTUM | 165 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: V | e36 | ||
| V | 166 | ||
| VAD (VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE) | 166 | ||
| VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY | 166 | ||
| VAGINITIS | 166 | ||
| VAGOTOMY | 166 | ||
| VALUE SYSTEM CONFLICT | 166 | ||
| VARICOSE VEINS | 166 | ||
| VASCULAR DEMENTIA (FORMERLY CALLED MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA) | 166 | ||
| VASCULAR OBSTRUCTION, PERIPHERAL | 166 | ||
| VASECTOMY | 166 | ||
| VASOCOGNOPATHY | 166 | ||
| VENEREAL DISEASE | 166 | ||
| UTERINE BLEEDING | 166 | ||
| UTI (URINARY TRACT INFECTION) | 166 | ||
| VENTILATION, IMPAIRED SPONTANEOUS | 167 | ||
| VENTILATOR CLIENT | 167 | ||
| VENTILATORY WEANING RESPONSE, DYSFUNCTIONAL (DVWR) | 167 | ||
| VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE (VAD) | 167 | ||
| VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION | 167 | ||
| VERTIGO | 167 | ||
| VIOLENT BEHAVIOR | 167 | ||
| VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS | 167 | ||
| VISION IMPAIRMENT | 167 | ||
| VOMITING | 168 | ||
| VON RECKLINGHAUSEN’S DISEASE | 168 | ||
| List of Nursing Assessments by Letter: W | e37 | ||
| W | 168 | ||
| WALKING IMPAIRMENT | 168 | ||
| WANDERING | 168 | ||
| WEAKNESS | 168 | ||
| WEIGHT GAIN | 168 | ||
| WEIGHT LOSS | 168 | ||
| WELLNESS-SEEKING BEHAVIOR | 168 | ||
| WERNICKE-KORSAKOFF SYNDROME | 168 | ||
| WEST NILE VIRUS | 168 | ||
| WHEELCHAIR USE PROBLEMS | 168 | ||
| WHEEZING | 168 | ||
| WILMS’ TUMOR | 168 | ||
| WITHDRAWAL FROM ALCOHOL | 168 | ||
| WITHDRAWAL FROM DRUGS | 168 | ||
| WOUND DEBRIDEMENT | 168 | ||
| WOUND DEHISCENCE, EVISCERATION | 169 | ||
| WOUND INFECTION | 169 | ||
| WOUNDS (OPEN) | 169 | ||
| Section II - Guide to Planning Care | 171 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: A | e38 | ||
| A | 171 | ||
| Activity Intolerance | 171 | ||
| Risk for Activity Intolerance | 176 | ||
| Ineffective Activity Planning | 177 | ||
| Risk for Ineffective Activity Planning | 180 | ||
| Ineffective Airway Clearance | 180 | ||
| Risk for Allergy Response | 185 | ||
| Anxiety | 189 | ||
| Death Anxiety | 192 | ||
| Risk for Aspiration | 195 | ||
| Risk for impaired Attachment | 199 | ||
| Autonomic Dysreflexia | 203 | ||
| Risk for Autonomic Dysreflexia | 205 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: B | e39 | ||
| B | 206 | ||
| Risk for Bleeding | 206 | ||
| Disturbed Body Image | 209 | ||
| Insufficient Breast Milk | 213 | ||
| Ineffective Breastfeeding | 215 | ||
| Interrupted Breastfeeding | 217 | ||
| Ineffective Breathing Pattern | 221 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: C | e40 | ||
| C | 225 | ||
| Decreased Cardiac output | 225 | ||
| Risk for decreased Cardiac tissue perfusion | 232 | ||
| Caregiver Role Strain | 236 | ||
| Risk for Caregiver Role Strain | 242 | ||
| Risk for ineffective Cerebral tissue perfusion | 243 | ||
| Ineffective Childbearing Process | 245 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Childbearing Process | 248 | ||
| Risk for ineffective Childbearing Process | 252 | ||
| Impaired Comfort | 252 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Comfort | 255 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Communication | 258 | ||
| Impaired verbal Communication | 260 | ||
| Acute Confusion | 264 | ||
| Chronic Confusion | 268 | ||
| Risk for acute Confusion | 275 | ||
| Constipation | 275 | ||
| Perceived Constipation | 281 | ||
| Risk for Constipation | 284 | ||
| Contamination | 285 | ||
| Risk for Contamination | 288 | ||
| Risk for adverse reaction to iodinated Contrast media | 289 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced community Coping | 292 | ||
| Defensive Coping | 293 | ||
| Ineffective Coping | 295 | ||
| Readiness for Enhanced Coping | 299 | ||
| Ineffective community Coping | 301 | ||
| Compromised family Coping | 303 | ||
| Disabled family Coping | 308 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced family Coping | 311 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: D | e41 | ||
| D | 313 | ||
| Decisional Conflict | 313 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Decision-Making | 316 | ||
| Ineffective Denial | 318 | ||
| Impaired Dentition | 320 | ||
| Risk for delayed Development | 325 | ||
| Diarrhea | 328 | ||
| Risk for Disuse Syndrome | 333 | ||
| Deficient Diversional Activity | 338 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: E | e42 | ||
| E | 342 | ||
| Risk for Electrolyte Imbalance | 342 | ||
| Disturbed Energy Field | 344 | ||
| Impaired Environmental Interpretation Syndrome | 347 | ||
| Risk for dry Eye | 347 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: F | e43 | ||
| F | 349 | ||
| Adult Failure to Thrive | 349 | ||
| Risk for Falls | 353 | ||
| Dysfunctional Family Processes | 359 | ||
| Interrupted Family Processes | 363 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Family Processes | 366 | ||
| Fatigue | 368 | ||
| Fear | 373 | ||
| Ineffective infant Feeding Pattern | 377 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Fluid balance | 380 | ||
| Risk for imbalanced Fluid Volume | 381 | ||
| Deficient Fluid Volume | 385 | ||
| Excess Fluid Volume | 390 | ||
| Impaired Gas Exchange | 394 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: G | e44 | ||
| G | 394 | ||
| Risk for Deficient Fluid Volume | 394 | ||
| Risk for dysfunctional Gastrointestinal Motility | 399 | ||
| Dysfunctional Gastrointestinal Motility | 399 | ||
| Risk for ineffective Gastrointestinal Perfusion | 404 | ||
| Risk for unstable blood Glucose level | 406 | ||
| Grieving | 411 | ||
| Complicated Grieving | 415 | ||
| Risk for complicated Grieving | 418 | ||
| Risk for disproportionate Growth | 419 | ||
| Delayed Growth and Development | 421 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: H | e45 | ||
| H | 424 | ||
| Deficient community Health | 424 | ||
| Risk-prone Health Behavior | 426 | ||
| Ineffective Health Maintenance | 429 | ||
| Impaired Home Maintenance | 432 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Hope | 434 | ||
| Hopelessness | 436 | ||
| Risk for compromised Human Dignity | 439 | ||
| Hyperthermia | 441 | ||
| Hypothermia | 447 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: I | e46 | ||
| I | 452 | ||
| Disturbed personal Identity | 452 | ||
| Risk for disturbed personal Identity | 456 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Immunization Status | 456 | ||
| Ineffective Impulse Control | 459 | ||
| Functional urinary Incontinence | 461 | ||
| Overflow urinary Incontinence | 466 | ||
| Reflex urinary Incontinence | 467 | ||
| Stress urinary Incontinence | 471 | ||
| Urge urinary Incontinence | 475 | ||
| Risk for urge urinary Incontinence | 482 | ||
| Bowel Incontinence | 482 | ||
| Disorganized Infant behavior | 487 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced organized Infant behavior | 492 | ||
| Risk for disorganized Infant behavior | 492 | ||
| Risk for Infection | 492 | ||
| Risk for Injury | 497 | ||
| Insomnia | 503 | ||
| Decreased Intracranial Adaptive Capacity | 506 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: J | e47 | ||
| J | 508 | ||
| Neonatal Jaundice | 508 | ||
| Risk for neonatal Jaundice | 512 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: K | e48 | ||
| K | 515 | ||
| Deficient Knowledge | 515 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Knowledge | 518 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: L | e49 | ||
| L | 520 | ||
| Latex Allergy Response | 520 | ||
| Risk for Latex Allergy Response | 525 | ||
| Risk for impaired Liver Function | 527 | ||
| Risk for Loneliness | 530 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: M | e50 | ||
| M | 533 | ||
| Risk for disturbed Maternal/Fetal Dyad | 533 | ||
| Impaired Memory | 535 | ||
| Impaired bed Mobility | 539 | ||
| Impaired physical Mobility | 545 | ||
| Impaired wheelchair Mobility | 551 | ||
| Moral Distress | 556 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: N | e51 | ||
| N | 557 | ||
| Nausea | 557 | ||
| Noncompliance | 562 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Nutrition | 563 | ||
| Imbalanced Nutrition: less than body requirements | 567 | ||
| Risk for imbalanced Nutrition: more than body requirements | 573 | ||
| Imbalanced Nutrition: more than body requirements | 573 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: O | e52 | ||
| O | 578 | ||
| Impaired Oral Mucous Membrane | 578 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: P | e53 | ||
| P | 584 | ||
| Acute Pain | 584 | ||
| Chronic Pain | 591 | ||
| Impaired Parenting | 598 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Parenting | 603 | ||
| Risk for impaired Parenting | 605 | ||
| Risk for Perioperative Positioning Injury | 606 | ||
| Risk for Peripheral Neurovascular Dysfunction | 610 | ||
| Risk for Poisoning | 613 | ||
| Post-Trauma Syndrome | 619 | ||
| Risk for Post-Trauma Syndrome | 622 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Power | 626 | ||
| Powerlessness | 627 | ||
| Risk for Powerlessness | 631 | ||
| Ineffective Protection | 632 | ||
| List of Nursing Diagnoses by Letter: R | e54 | ||
| R | 636 | ||
| Rape-Trauma Syndrome | 636 | ||
| Ineffective Relationship | 640 | ||
| Readiness for enhanced Relationship | 641 | ||
| Risk for ineffective Relationship | 643 | ||
| Impaired Religiosity | 643 | ||
| Bibliography | 841 | ||
| Index | 853 | 
