Nursing Diagnosis List
Nursing Diagnosis List
The awareness of well-being or normality of function and the strategies used to maintain control of
and enhance that well-being or normality of function
Class 1 Health Awareness Recognition of normal function and well-being
00195 Risk for electrolyte Vulnerable to changes I serum electrolyte levels, which may
imbalance compromise health
00160 Readiness for A pattern of equilibrium between the fluid volume and
enhanced fluid chemical composition of body fluids, which can be
balance strengthened
00027 Deficient fluid Decreased intravascular, interstitial, and/or intracellular fluid.
volume This refers to dehydration, water loss alone without change in
sodium
00028 Risk for deficient Vulnerable to experiencing decreased intravascular, interstitial,
fluid volume and/or intracellular fluid volumes, which may compromise
health
00026 Excess fluid volume Increased isotonic fluid retention
00025 Risk for imbalanced Vulnerable to a decrease, increase, or rapid shift from one to
fluid volume the other of intravascular, interstitial, and/or intracellular fluid,
which may compromise health. This refers to body fluid loss,
gain, or both
DOMAIN 3- ELIMINATION AND EXCHANGE
Secretion and excretion of waste products from the body
Class 1 Urinary function The process of secretion, reabsorption, and excretion of urine
00221 Ineffective Pregnancy and childbirth process and care of the newborn that
childbearing process does not match the environmental context, norms, and
expectations
00208 Readiness for A pattern of preparing for and maintaining a healthy
enhanced pregnancy, childbirth process, and care of the newborn for
childbearing process ensuring well-being, which can be strengthened
00227 Risk for ineffective Vulnerable to not matching environmental context, norms and
childbearing process expectations of pregnancy, childbirth process, and the care of
the newborn
00209 Risk for disturbed Vulnerable to disruption of the symbiotic maternal-fetal dyad
maternal-fetal dyad as a result comorbid or pregnancy-related conditions, which
may compromise health
DOMAIN 9- COPING/STRESS TOLERANCE
Contending with life events/life processes
Class 1 Post-trauma responses Reactions occurring after physical or psychological
00141 Post-trauma Sustained maladaptive response to a traumatic, overwhelming
syndrome event
00145 Risk for post-trauma Vulnerable to sustained maladaptive response to a traumatic,
syndrome over-whelming event, which may compromise health
00142 Rape-trauma Sustained maladaptive response to a forced, violent, sexual
syndrome penetration against the victim’s will and consent
00114 Relocation stress Physiological and/or psychosocial disturbance following
syndrome transfer from one environment to another
00149 Risk for relocation Vulnerable to physiological and/or psychosocial disturbance
stress syndrome following transfer from one environment to another that may
compromise health
Class 2 Coping responses The process of managing environmental stress
00199 Ineffective activity Inability to prepare for a set of actions fixed in time and under
planning certain conditions
00226 Risk for ineffective Vulnerable to an inability to prepare for a set of actions fixed in
activity planning time and under certain conditions, which may compromise
health
00146 Anxiety Vague, uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread accompanied by
an autonomic response (the source is often nonspecific or
unknown to the individual); a feeling of apprehension caused
by anticipation of danger. It is an alerting sign that warns of
impending danger and enables the individual to take measures
to deal with that threat
00071 Defensive coping Repeated projection of falsely positive self-evaluation based on
a self-protective pattern that defends against underlying
perceived threats to positive self-regard
00069 Ineffective coping Inability to form a valid appraisal of the stressors, inadequate
choices of practiced responses, and/or inability to use available
resources
00158 Readiness for A pattern of cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage
enhanced coping demands related to well-being, which can be strengthened
00077 Ineffective A pattern of community activities for adaptation and problem-
community coping solving that is unsatisfactory for meeting the demands or
needs of the community
00076 Readiness for A pattern of community activities for adaptation and problem-
enhanced solving for meeting the demands or needs of the community,
community coping which can be strengthened
00074 Compromised family A usually supportive primary person (family member,
coping significant other, or close friend) provides insufficient,
ineffective, or compromised support, comfort, assistance, or
encouragement that may be needed by the client to manage or
master adaptive tasks related to his or her health challenge
00073 Disabled family Behavior of primary person (family member, significant other,
coping or close friend) that disables his or her capacities and the
client’s capacities to effectively address tasks essential to
either person’s adaptation to the health challenge
00075 Readiness for A pattern of management of adaptive tasks by primary person
enhanced family (family member, significant other, or close friend) involved
coping with the client’s health change, which can be strengthened
00147 Death anxiety Vague, uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread generated by
perceptions of a real or imagined threat to one’s existence
00072 Ineffective denial Conscious or unconscious attempt to disavow the knowledge
or meaning of an event to reduce anxiety and/or fear, leading
to the detriment of health
00148 Fear Response to perceived threat that is consciously recognized as
a danger
00136 Grieving A normal complex process that includes emotional, physical,
spiritual, social, and intellectual responses and behaviors by
which individuals. Families, and communities incorporate an
actual, anticipated, or perceived loss into their daily lives
00135 Complicated A disorder that occurs after the death of a significant other, in
grieving which the experience of distress accompanying bereavement
fails to follow normative expectations and manifests in
functional impairment
00172 Risk for complicated Vulnerable to a disorder that occurs after death of a significant
grieving other in which the experience of distress accompanying
bereavement fails to follow normative expectations and
manifests in functional impairment, which may compromise
health
00241 Impaired mood A mental state characterized by shifts in mood or affect and
regulation which is comprised of a constellation of affective, cognitive,
somatic, and/or physiological manifestations varying from mild
to severer
00187 Readiness for A pattern of participating knowingly in change for well-being,
enhanced power which can be strengthened
00125 Powerlessness The lived experience of lack of control over a situation,
including a perception that one’s actions do not significantly
affect an outcome
00152 Risk for Vulnerable to the lived experience of lack of control over a
powerlessness situation, including apperception that one’s actions do not
significantly affect the outcome, which may compromise health
00210 Impaired resilience Decreased ability to sustain a pattern of positive responses to
an adverse situation or crisis
00212 Readiness for A pattern of positive responses to an adverse situation or crisis,
enhanced resilience which can be strengthened
00211 Risk for impaired Vulnerable to decreased ability to sustain a pattern of positive
resilience response to an adverse situation or crisis, which may
compromise health
00137 Chronic sorrow Cyclical, recurring, and potentially progressive pattern of
pervasive sadness experienced (by a parent, caregiver,
individual with chronic illness or disability) in response to
continual loss, throughout the trajectory of an illness or
disability
00177 Stress overload Excessive amounts and types of demands that require action
Class 3 Neurobehavioral stress Behavioral responses reflecting nerve and brain function
Class 3 Violence The exertion of excessive force or power so as to cause injury or abuse
00214 Impaired comfort Perceived lack of ease, relief, and transcendence in physical,
psychospiritual, environmental, cultural, and/or social
dimensions
00183 Readiness for A pattern of ease, relief, and transcendence in physical,
enhanced comfort psychospiritual, environmental, and/or social dimension, which
can be strengthened
00054 Risk for loneliness Vulnerable to experiencing discomfort associated with a desire
or need for more contact with others, which may compromise
health
00053 Social isolation Aloneness experienced by the individual and perceived as
imposed by others and as a negative or threatening state
DOMAIN 13- GROWTH/DEVELOPMENT
Age-appropriate increases in physical dimensions, maturation of organ systems, and/or progression
through the developmental milestones
Class 1 Growth Increases in physical dimensions or maturity of organ systems
00113 Risk for Vulnerable to growth above 97th percentile or below the 3rd
disproportionate percentile for age, crossing two percentile channels, which may
growth compromise health
Class 2 Development Progress or regression through a sequence of recognized milestones in life
00112 Risk for delayed Vulnerable to delay of 25% or more in one or more of the areas
development of social or self-regulatory behavior, or in cognitive, language,
gross, or fine motor skills, which may compromise health