Appendix A: Sample NANDA-I Diagnoses

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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[1]

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

  • Impaired gas exchange
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

  • Fatigue
  • Wandering

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
  • Sexual dysfunction
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

 


  1. Herdman, T. H., Kamitsuru, S., & Lopes, C.T. (Eds.). (2021). Nursing diagnoses: Definitions and classification 2021-2023, Twelfth Edition. Thieme Publishers New York.

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