1 Submitting and Developing a Nursing Diagnosis Professor Dame June Clark

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Submitting and Developing a Nursing Diagnosis

Professor Dame June Clark

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NANDA I : Mission and Vision

Our Mission is to facilitate the development, use, and evaluation of nursing diagnoses

Our Vision is to become the global leader for development and use of standardized nursing diagnosis terminology

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Levels of development

Level 1: Received for development

Level 2: Accepted for publication and inclusion in the NANDA Taxonomy

Level 3: Clinically supported (validation and clinical testing)

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Level 1: Received for development

1.1 Label only

1.2 Label and definition

1.3 plus Defining Characteristics or Risk factors

1.4 plus references

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Preliminary steps

1. Get the guidelines from the book or the web;

2. Contact Leann Scroggins (scroggins.leann@mayo.edu);

3. Look at the glossary of terms;4. Decide the “status of the diagnosis”

(actual, risk, or wellness);5. Provide a label for the diagnosis.

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Every nursing diagnosis must include:

The diagnostic conceptThe judgement about it

BUT….In some diagnoses these two pieces are

combined, ie the judgement is contained in the diagnostic concept

eg. Pain

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Level 2: Accepted for publication and inclusion in NANDA list

2.1 Label, definition, defining characteristics or risk factors, related

factors, references, and literature review

2.2 Consensus studies using nurse experts

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Steps to Level 2

6. Provide a definition supported by references

7. Identify the defining characteristics or risk factors (with references)

8. Identify related factors

9. Develop a bibliography.

10. Email to nanda.rmpinc.org

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Level 3: Clinically supported

3.1 Literature Synthesis;3.2 Clinical studies related to the

diagnosis, but not generalisable to the population;

3.3 Well designed clinical studies with small sample sizes;

3.4 Well designed clinical studies with random sample of sufficient size for generalisation.

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Diagnostic concept

Judgement Subject of the diagnosis

Site

Age

The NANDA model for nursing diagnoses

Time

Status of the diagnosis

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Diagnostic concept coping

Judgementineffective

Subject of the diagnosisfamily

SiteN/A

AgeN/A

Risk for chronic ineffective family coping

TimeChronic

Status of the diagnosisRisk for

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The Future

IS YOURS!!

Please submit new diagnoses

NNN Conference Philadelphia March 2006: See you there!

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DO IT NOW!