The ordering of nursing diagnosis or client problems using notions of urgency and/ or importance to establish a preferential order for nursing actions.
Priority setting
Well written nursing orders include:
1)Clear and concise described action.2)Use accepted abbreviations only.3)Dated when written.4)Signed by initiating nurse.
These risks are non- emergent, non- life threatening but are still important.
Medium Risk
This risk if left untreated can cause harm to client or others.
High Risk
The purpose of an assessment is to establish this about the client's perceived needs, health problems, and responses to health problems.
Database
An actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a client's status.
Collaborative Problem
This step of nursing process formally begins after the nurse develops a plan of care. It is the treatment based upon clinical judgment and knowledge that a nurse performs to enhance patient/ client outcomes.
Nursing Interventions
The "why" of nursing diagnosis. Environmental or contributing factors.
Etiology
A clinical judgment of a person's, family's, or community's motivation and desire to increase well- being and actualize human health potential as expressed in their readiness to enhance specific health behaviors.
Wellness Nursing Diagnosis
This should be individualized, client specific, consistent with the standards of care, realistic in terms of abilities, resources, time and capatible with client's values and beliefs.
