Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269673 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
Definition: | Nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgement about individual, family or community responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses provide the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable. |
Context: | Enables analysis of information by diagnostic variables especially in relation to the development of outcome information, the goal of care and the nursing intervention. This metadata item and the metadata item nursing intervention have shown to be more predictive of resource use than client's functional status or medical diagnosis. |