P&P CHAP 17 - NURSING DIAGNOSIS QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS
Medical diagnosis Correct Answers is the identification of a disease
condition based on a specific evaluation of physical signs and
symptoms, a patient's medical history, and the results of diagnostic tests
and procedures.
Nursing diagnosis Correct Answers is a clinical judgment concerning a
human response to health conditions/life processes, or vulnerability for
that response by an individual, family, or community that a nurse is
licensed and competent to treat (Herdman and Kamitsuru, 2014).
Critical thinking and the nursing diagnostic process. Correct Answers
FIGURE 17-1
Collaborative problem Correct Answers is an actual or potential
physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of
changes in a patient's health status (Carpenito-Moyet, 2013). When
collaborative problems develop, nurses intervene in collaboration with
personnel from other health care disciplines.
The use of standard formal nursing diagnostic statements serves several
purposes in nursing practice: Correct Answers • Provides a precise
definition of a patient's responses to health problems that gives nurses
and other members of the health care team a common language for
understanding a patient's needs • Allows nurses to communicate (e.g.,
written and electronic) what they do among themselves with other health
care professionals and the public • Distinguishes the nurse's role from
that of other health care providers • Helps nurses focus on the scope of
,nursing practice • Fosters the development of nursing knowledge •
Promotes creation of practice guidelines that reflect the essence and
science of nursing
Problem-focused nursing diagnosis Correct Answers describes a clinical
judgment concerning an undesirable human response to a health
condition/life process that exists in an individual, family, or community.
Defining characteristics Correct Answers (observable assessment cues
such as patient behavior, physical signs) that support each problem-
focused diagnostic judgment (Herdman and Kamitsuru, 2014).
Related factor Correct Answers is an etiological or causative factor for
the diagnosis (i.e., the data that appear to show some type of patterned
relationship with a nursing diagnosis) (Herdman and Kamitsuru, 2014).
A related factor allows you to individualize a problem-focused nursing
diagnosis for a specific patient need.
Risk nursing diagnosis Correct Answers is a clinical judgment
concerning the vulnerability of an individual, family, group, or
community for developing an undesirable human response to health
conditions/life processes (Herdman and Kamitsuru, 2014).
Health promotion nursing diagnosis Correct Answers is a clinical
judgment concerning a patient's motivation and desire to increase well-
being and actualize human health potential (Herdman and Kamitsuru,
2014).
, Data cluster Correct Answers is a set of cues, the signs or symptoms
gathered during assessment. Each cue is an objective or subjective sign,
symptom, or risk factor that, when analyzed with other cues, begins to
lead to diagnostic conclusions.
Examples of NANDA International-Approved Nursing Diagnoses with
Defining Characteristics Correct Answers Diagnosis: Deficient
Knowledge, Diagnosis: Readiness for Enhanced Knowledge (Box 17-3)
Diagnosis: Deficient Knowledge, Defining Characteristics Correct
Answers • Inaccurate follow-through of instruction
• Inaccurate performance on a test
• Inappropriate behavior (e.g., hysterical, hostile, agitated, apathetic)
• Insufficient knowledge
Diagnosis: Readiness for Enhanced Knowledge, Defining
Characteristics Correct Answers • Expresses a desire to increase or
enhance learning
Differentiating nursing diagnoses from collaborative problems. Correct
Answers FIGURE 17-3
DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS
Medical diagnosis Correct Answers is the identification of a disease
condition based on a specific evaluation of physical signs and
symptoms, a patient's medical history, and the results of diagnostic tests
and procedures.
Nursing diagnosis Correct Answers is a clinical judgment concerning a
human response to health conditions/life processes, or vulnerability for
that response by an individual, family, or community that a nurse is
licensed and competent to treat (Herdman and Kamitsuru, 2014).
Critical thinking and the nursing diagnostic process. Correct Answers
FIGURE 17-1
Collaborative problem Correct Answers is an actual or potential
physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of
changes in a patient's health status (Carpenito-Moyet, 2013). When
collaborative problems develop, nurses intervene in collaboration with
personnel from other health care disciplines.
The use of standard formal nursing diagnostic statements serves several
purposes in nursing practice: Correct Answers • Provides a precise
definition of a patient's responses to health problems that gives nurses
and other members of the health care team a common language for
understanding a patient's needs • Allows nurses to communicate (e.g.,
written and electronic) what they do among themselves with other health
care professionals and the public • Distinguishes the nurse's role from
that of other health care providers • Helps nurses focus on the scope of
,nursing practice • Fosters the development of nursing knowledge •
Promotes creation of practice guidelines that reflect the essence and
science of nursing
Problem-focused nursing diagnosis Correct Answers describes a clinical
judgment concerning an undesirable human response to a health
condition/life process that exists in an individual, family, or community.
Defining characteristics Correct Answers (observable assessment cues
such as patient behavior, physical signs) that support each problem-
focused diagnostic judgment (Herdman and Kamitsuru, 2014).
Related factor Correct Answers is an etiological or causative factor for
the diagnosis (i.e., the data that appear to show some type of patterned
relationship with a nursing diagnosis) (Herdman and Kamitsuru, 2014).
A related factor allows you to individualize a problem-focused nursing
diagnosis for a specific patient need.
Risk nursing diagnosis Correct Answers is a clinical judgment
concerning the vulnerability of an individual, family, group, or
community for developing an undesirable human response to health
conditions/life processes (Herdman and Kamitsuru, 2014).
Health promotion nursing diagnosis Correct Answers is a clinical
judgment concerning a patient's motivation and desire to increase well-
being and actualize human health potential (Herdman and Kamitsuru,
2014).
, Data cluster Correct Answers is a set of cues, the signs or symptoms
gathered during assessment. Each cue is an objective or subjective sign,
symptom, or risk factor that, when analyzed with other cues, begins to
lead to diagnostic conclusions.
Examples of NANDA International-Approved Nursing Diagnoses with
Defining Characteristics Correct Answers Diagnosis: Deficient
Knowledge, Diagnosis: Readiness for Enhanced Knowledge (Box 17-3)
Diagnosis: Deficient Knowledge, Defining Characteristics Correct
Answers • Inaccurate follow-through of instruction
• Inaccurate performance on a test
• Inappropriate behavior (e.g., hysterical, hostile, agitated, apathetic)
• Insufficient knowledge
Diagnosis: Readiness for Enhanced Knowledge, Defining
Characteristics Correct Answers • Expresses a desire to increase or
enhance learning
Differentiating nursing diagnoses from collaborative problems. Correct
Answers FIGURE 17-3
