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Understanding Nursing Diagnosis: Types, Differences, and Process

• Nursing diagnosis is a crucial step in the nursing process, which involves using critical thinking skills to interpret assessment data and identify client's strengths and problems.
• Nursing diagnosis is different from medical diagnosis, as it focuses on identifying responses to health and illness, and can change from day to day, while medical diagnosis refers to the disease process and stays the same as long as the disease is present.
• There are five types of nursing diagnoses: actual, risk, wellness, possible, and syndrome.
• Actual nursing diagnosis is a client problem that is present at the time of the nursing assessment, based on the presence of associated signs and symptoms.
• Risk nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment that a problem does not exist, but the presence of risk factors indicates that a problem is likely to develop unless nurses intervene.
• Wellness nursing diagnosis describes human responses to levels of wellness in an individual, family, or community that have a readiness for enhancement.
• Possible nursing diagnosis is one in which evidence about a health problem is incomplete or unclear and requires more data to support or refute it.
• Syndrome nursing diagnosis is a diagnosis associated with a cluster of other diagnoses.
• In the diagnostic process, experienced nurses continuously analyze data to identify health problems, risks, and strengths.
• The nurse and client can together identify strengths and problems in a decision-making process after data analysis.
• The basic three-part nursing diagnosis statement is called the PES format, which includes Problem (P), Etiology (E), and Signs and Symptoms (S).
• Actual nursing diagnoses can be documented by using the three-part statement, while risk nursing diagnoses require a two-part statement that includes the problem and risk factors.

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