Table A contains selected, commonly used NANDA-I 2021-2023 nursing diagnoses related to concepts discussed in this book. Nursing students may use Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns framework to cluster assessment data by domain and then select appropriate NANDA-I nursing diagnoses based on the client’s defining characteristics. For more information, refer to a current nursing care planning resource.
Table A Sample 2021-2023 NANDA-I Diagnoses by Domain
| Domain |
Class & Nursing Diagnosis |
| Health Promotion |
- Frail elderly syndrome
- Ineffective health maintenance behaviors
- Readiness for enhanced health self-management
|
| Nutrition |
- Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements
- Readiness for enhanced nutrition
- Impaired swallowing
- Risk for unstable blood glucose level
- Risk for electrolyte imbalance
- Deficient fluid volume
- Excess fluid volume
- Risk for imbalanced fluid volume
|
| Elimination and Exchange |
Urinary function
- Impaired urinary elimination
- Stress urinary incontinence
- Urge urinary incontinence
- Urinary retention
- Risk for urinary retention
Gastrointestinal function
- Constipation
- Risk for constipation
- Diarrhea
- Impaired bowel continence
Respiratory function
|
| Activity/Rest |
Sleep/Rest
- Insomnia
- Disturbed sleep pattern
- Readiness for enhanced sleep
Activity/Rest
- Decreased activity tolerance
- Risk for disuse syndrome
- Impaired bed mobility
- Impaired physical mobility
- Impaired wheelchair mobility
- Impaired sitting
- Impaired standing
- Impaired transfer ability
- Impaired walking
Energy balance
Cardiovascular/Pulmonary responses
- Ineffective breathing pattern
- Decreased cardiac output
- Risk for decreased cardiac output
- Risk for unstable blood pressure
- Risk for thrombosis
- Ineffective peripheral tissue perfusion
Self-care
- Bathing self-care deficit
- Dressing self-care deficit
- Feeding self-care deficit
- Toileting self-care deficit
|
| Perception/Cognition |
- Unilateral neglect
- Acute confusion
- Chronic confusion
- Deficient knowledge
- Readiness for enhanced knowledge
- Impaired memory
- Readiness for enhanced communication
- Impaired verbal communication
|
| Self-Perception |
- Hopelessness
- Readiness for enhanced hope
- Disturbed body image
|
| Role Relationship |
- Caregiver role strain
- Risk for caregiver role strain
- Impaired social interaction
|
| Sexuality |
|
| Coping/Stress Tolerance |
- Risk for relocation stress syndrome
- Anxiety
- Ineffective coping
- Death anxiety
- Fear
- Maladaptive grieving
- Powerlessness
- Risk for autonomic dysreflexia
|
| Life Principles |
- Readiness for enhanced spiritual well-being
- Decisional conflict
- Spiritual distress
|
| Safety/Protection |
- Risk for infection
- Ineffective airway clearance
- Risk for aspiration
- Risk for bleeding
- Risk for adult falls
- Risk for injury
- Impaired dentition
- Adult pressure injury
- Risk for adult pressure injury
- Impaired skin integrity
- Impaired tissue integrity
- Risk for suicidal behavior
- Risk for poisoning
- Risk for allergy reaction
- Hyperthermia
- Hypothermia
|
| Comfort |
- Impaired comfort
- Nausea
- Acute pain
- Chronic pain
- Risk for loneliness
|
| Growth/Development |
- Delayed child development
|
