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A nursing diagnosis is a standardized statement about the health of a client for the purpose of providing nursing care. Nursing diagnoses are developed based on data obtained during the nursing assessment. The main organization for defining standard diagnoses in North America is the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, now known as NANDA-International. Other international associations are AENTDE , AFEDI and ACENDIO . Nursing diagnoses are part of a movement...


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What is the actual difference between a medical diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis?
I know that a medical (doctor's) diagnosis is desease and treatment based, but what is...

The nursing diagnosis is care-focused. The medical diagnosis is etiology (cause) focused. The nursing diagnosis identifies risks and needs of the patient both in the clinical setting (hospital, for example) and...

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