Nursing Diagnoses
List of NANDA Diagnoses 2024-20226
Domain 1. Health promotion
Class 1. Health awareness
- Decreased diversional activity engagement
- Risk for decreased diversional activity engagement
- Excessive sedentary behaviors
- Risk for excessive sedentary behaviors
- Imbalanced energy field
Class 2. Health management
- Inefective health self-management
- Risk for inefective health self-management
- Readiness for enhanced health self-management
- Inefective family health management
- Risk for inefective family health management
- Inefective community health management
- Risk for inefective community health management
- Risk for inefective blood glucose pattern self-management
- Inefective dry eye self-management
- Inefective dry mouth self-management
- Risk for inefective dry mouth self-management
- Inefective fatigue self-management
- Inefective lymphedema self-management
- Risk for inefective lymphedema self-management
- Inefective nausea self-management
- Inefective pain self-management
- Readiness for enhanced weight self-management
- Inefective overweight self-management
- Risk for inefective overweight self-management
- Inefective underweight self-management
- Risk for inefective underweight self-management
- Inefective health maintenance behaviors
- Risk for inefective health maintenance behaviors
- Inefective home maintenance behaviors
- Risk for inefective home maintenance behaviors
- Readiness for enhanced home maintenance behaviors
- Readiness for enhanced exercise engagement
- Inadequate health literacy
- Risk for inadequate health literacy
- Readiness for enhanced health literacy
- Readiness for enhanced healthy aging
- Elder frailty syndrome
- Risk for elder frailty syndrome
Domain 2. Nutrition
Class 1. Ingestion
- Inadequate nutritional intake
- Risk for inadequate nutritional intake
- Readiness for enhanced nutritional intake
- Inadequate protein energy nutritional intake
- Risk for inadequate protein energy nutritional intake
- Inefective chestfeeding
- Risk for inefective chestfeeding
- Disrupted exclusive chestfeeding
- Risk for disrupted exclusive chestfeeding
- Readiness for enhanced chestfeeding
- Inadequate human milk production
- Risk for inadequate human milk production
- Inefective infant feeding dynamics
- Inefective child eating dynamics
- Inefective adolescent eating dynamics
- Impaired swallowing
Class 2. Digestion
- This class does not currently contain any diagnoses
Class 3. Absorption
- This class does not currently contain any diagnoses
Class 4. Metabolism
- Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
- Risk for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
Class 5. Hydration
- Risk for impaired water-electrolyte balance
- Risk for impaired fluid volume balance
- Excessive fluid volume
- Risk for excessive fluid volume
- Inadequate fluid volume
- Risk for inadequate fluid volume
Domain 3. Elimination and exchange
Class 1. Urinary function
- Impaired urinary elimination
- Risk for urinary retention
- Disability-associated urinary incontinence
- Mixed urinary incontinence
- Stress urinary incontinence
- Urge urinary incontinence
- Risk for urge urinary incontinence
Class 2. Gastrointestinal function
- Impaired gastrointestinal motility
- Risk for impaired gastrointestinal motility
- Impaired intestinal elimination
- Risk for impaired intestinal elimination
- Chronic functional constipation
- Risk for chronic functional constipation
- Impaired fecal continence
- Risk for impaired fecal continence
Class 3. Integumentary function
- This class does not currently contain any diagnoses
Class 4. Respiratory function
- Impaired gas exchange
Domain 4. Activity / rest Class 1. Sleep / rest
- Inefective sleep pattern
- Risk for inefective sleep pattern
- Readiness for enhanced sleep pattern
- Inefective sleep hygiene behaviors
- Risk for inefective sleep hygiene behaviors
Class 2. Activity / exercise
- Impaired physical mobility
- Risk for impaired physical mobility
- Impaired bed mobility
- Impaired wheelchair mobility
- Impaired sitting ability
- Impaired standing ability
- Impaired transferring ability
- Impaired walking ability
Class 3. Energy balance
- Decreased activity tolerance
- Risk for decreased activity tolerance
- Excessive fatigue burden
- Impaired surgical recovery
- Risk for impaired surgical recovery
Class 4. Cardiovascular / pulmonary responses
- Risk for impaired cardiovascular function
- Risk for imbalanced blood pressure
- Risk for decreased cardiac output
- Risk for inefective cerebral tissue perfusion
- Inefective peripheral tissue perfusion
- Risk for inefective peripheral tissue perfusion
- Inefective breathing pattern
- Impaired spontaneous ventilation
- Impaired child ventilatory weaning response
- Impaired adult ventilatory weaning response
Class 5. Self-care
- Decreased self-care ability syndrome
- Risk for decreased self-care ability syndrome
- Readiness for enhanced self-care abilities
- Decreased bathing abilities
- Decreased dressing abilities
- Decreased feeding abilities
- Decreased grooming abilities
- Decreased toileting abilities
- Inefective oral hygiene behaviors
- Risk for inefective oral hygiene behaviors
Domain 5. Perception / cognition
Class 1. Attention
- This class does not currently contain any diagnoses
Class 2. Orientation
- This class does not currently contain any diagnoses
Class 3. Sensation / perception
This class does not currently contain any diagnoses
Class 4. Cognition
- Acute confusion
- Risk for acute confusion
- Chronic confusion
- Inefective impulse control
- Disrupted thought processes
- Inadequate health knowledge
- Readiness for enhanced health knowledge
- Impaired memory
- Impaired decision-making
- Readiness for enhanced decision-making
- Impaired emancipated decision-making
- Risk for impaired emancipated decision-making
- Readiness for enhanced emancipated decision-making
Class 5. Communication
- Impaired verbal communication
- Risk for impaired verbal communication
- Readiness for enhanced verbal communication
Domain 6. Self-perception
Class 1. Self-concept
- Readiness for enhanced self-concept
- Disrupted personal identity
- Disrupted family identity syndrome
- Risk for disrupted family identity syndrome
- Risk for impaired human dignity
- Readiness for enhanced transgender social identity
Class 2. Self-esteem
- Chronic inadequate self-esteem
- Risk for chronic inadequate self-esteem
- Situational inadequate self-esteem
- Risk for situational inadequate self-esteem
- Inadequate health self-eficacy
Class 3. Body image
- Disrupted body image
Domain 7. Role relationship
Class 1. Caregiving roles
- Impaired parenting behaviors
- Risk for impaired parenting behaviors
- Readiness for enhanced parenting behaviors
- Excessive parental role conflict
Class 2. Family relationships
- Disrupted family interaction patterns
- Risk for disrupted family interaction patterns
- Impaired family processes
- Readiness for enhanced family processes
- Risk for disrupted attachment behaviors
Class 3. Role performance
- Inefective role performance
- Inefective intimate partner relationship
- Risk for inefective intimate partner relationship
- Readiness for enhanced intimate partner relationship
- Impaired social interaction
- Inefective childbearing process
- Risk for inefective childbearing process
- Readiness for enhanced childbearing process
Domain 8. Sexuality
Class 1. Sexual identity
- This class does not currently contain any diagnoses
Class 2. Sexual function
- Impaired sexual function
Class 3. Reproduction
- Risk for impaired maternal-fetal dyad
Domain 9. Coping / stress tolerance
Class 1. Post-trauma responses
- Post-trauma syndrome
- Risk for post-trauma syndrome
- Risk for disrupted immigration transition
Class 2. Coping responses
- Maladaptive coping
- Readiness for enhanced coping
- Maladaptive family coping
- Readiness for enhanced family coping
- Maladaptive community coping
- Readiness for enhanced community coping
- Excessive caregiving burden
- Risk for excessive caregiving burden
- Maladaptive grieving
- Risk for maladaptive grieving
- Readiness for enhanced grieving
- Impaired resilience
- Risk for impaired resilience
- Readiness for enhanced resilience
- Readiness for enhanced hope
- Inadequate self-compassion
- Excessive anxiety
- Excessive death anxiety
- Excessive fear
Class 3. Neurobehavioral responses
- Risk for autonomic dysreflexia
- Inefective emotion regulation
- Impaired mood regulation
- Acute substance withdrawal syndrome
- Risk for acute substance withdrawal syndrome
- Risk for impaired human connection
- Impaired human connection
Domain 10. Life principles
Class 1. Values
- Impaired personal identity
- Risk for impaired personal identity
- Impaired life principles
- Risk for impaired life principles
- Readiness for enhanced life principles
Class 2. Beliefs
- Impaired religious coping
- Risk for impaired religious coping
- Readiness for enhanced religious coping
Class 3. Value / belief / action congruence
- Inadequate value-belief-action congruence
- Risk for inadequate value-belief-action congruence
Domain 11. Safety / protection
Class 1. Infection
- Risk for infection
- Risk for perioperative positioning injury
- Risk for surgical site infection
- Risk for healthcare-associated infection
- Risk for communicable disease transmission
- Risk for multidrug-resistant organism transmission
Class 2. Physical injury
- Risk for falls
- Risk for trauma
- Risk for injury
- Risk for adverse reaction to iodinated contrast media
- Risk for perioperative injury
- Risk for self-injury
- Risk for maternal injury
- Risk for neonatal injury
- Risk for poisoning
- Risk for violence
- Risk for female genital mutilation
- Risk for abusive behaviors
Class 3. Violence
- Risk for sexual violence
- Risk for sexual assault
- Risk for human traficking victimization
- Risk for elder abuse
Class 4. Environmental hazards
- Risk for environmental hazard exposure
- Risk for workplace injury
- Risk for community hazard exposure
Class 5. Defensive processes
- Risk for impaired immune response
- Inefective immune response
Class 6. Thermoregulation
- Hypothermia
- Risk for hypothermia
- Hyperthermia
- Risk for hyperthermia
- Risk for neonatal thermoregulation imbalance
Domain 12. Comfort
Class 1. Physical comfort
- Acute pain
- Chronic pain
- Readiness for enhanced comfort
- Impaired comfort
Class 2. Environmental comfort
- Impaired environmental comfort
Class 3. Social comfort
- Impaired social comfort
Domain 13. Growth / development
Class 1. Growth
- Delayed growth
- Risk for delayed growth
- Readiness for enhanced growth
Class 2. Development
- Delayed child development
- Risk for delayed child development
- Delayed adolescent development
- Risk for delayed adolescent development
- Readiness for enhanced child development
- Readiness for enhanced adolescent development
- Delayed infant development
- Risk for delayed infant development
- Delayed motor development
- Risk for delayed motor development
- Impaired neurodevelopmental organization
- Risk for impaired neurodevelopmental organization
- Readiness for enhanced neurodevelopmental organization
- Inefective infant suck-swallow response
- Impaired infant attachment
- Risk for impaired infant attachment
defining characteristics and related factors
Activity/Rest Domain: Sleep/Rest Class
Inefective sleep pattern

Coping/Stress Tolerance Domain: Coping Responses Class
Maladaptive Coping

Elimination and Exchange Domain: Urinary Function Class
Functional Urinary Incontinence

Safety/Protection Domain: Physical Injury Class
Risk for Falls

Comfort Domain: Pain Class
Chronic Pain/Chronic pain syndrome

Self-Perception Domain: Self-Concept Class
Disrupted Body Image

Nutrition Domain: Ingestion Class
Inadequate nutritional intake

Activity/Rest Domain: Energy Balance Class
Excessive fatigue burden

Perception/Cognition Domain: Cognitive Orientation Class
Acute Confusion

Elimination and Exchange Domain: Bowel Function Class
Chronic functional constipation

Safety/Protection Domain: Immune Response Class
Risk for Infection

Role Relationships Domain: Caregiving Roles Class
Impaired parenting behaviors

Self-Perception Domain: Self-Esteem Class
Chronic inadequate self-esteem

Life Principles Domain: Value/Belief Class
Impaired spiritual well-being

Coping/Stress Tolerance Domain: Stress Responses Class
Post-Trauma Syndrome

Growth/Development Domain: Development Class
Delayed Growth/ Delayed child Development

Nutrition Domain: Hydration Class
Inadequate fluid volume

Activity/Rest Domain: Sleep/Rest Class
Insomnia

Perception/Cognition Domain: Sensory Perception Class
Impaired Skin Integrity

Elimination and Exchange Domain: Urinary Function Class
Impaired urinary elimination

Safety/Protection Domain: Thermoregulation Class
Hyperthermia

Role Relationships Domain: Parenting Class
Risk for Impaired Parenting behaviors

Self-Perception Domain: Body Image Class
Disrupted body image

Life Principles Domain: Value/Belief Class
Readiness for Enhanced Spiritual Well-being

Coping/Stress Tolerance Domain: Coping Responses Class
Maladaptive coping

Growth/Development Domain: Development Class
Risk for Delayed Child Development

Coping/Stress Tolerance Domain: Stress Management Class
Post-Trauma Syndrome

Activity/Rest Domain: Energy Balance Class
Excessive fatigue burden

Safety/Protection Domain: Infection Class
Risk for Infection

Perception/Cognition Domain: Thought Processes Class
Disrupted thought processes

Role Relationships Domain: Family Class
Impaired parenting behaviors

Growth/Development Domain: Growth Class
Risk for Delayed Growth / Risk for Delayed Development

Sexuality Domain: Sexual Function Class
Impaired sexual function

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