Nursing Diagnoses

The CCC of Nursing Diagnoses (v2.5) consists of 176 nursing diagnostic concepts (60 major & 116 sub-categories). The major categories represent concrete patient problems and the sub-categories represent more precise related concepts. Each depicts patient diagnoses, problems, and/or healthcare conditions requiring clinical care by nurses and other health care providers. The Nursing Diagnoses or Patient Problems were collected from the original live research data and superficially may appear similar to NANDA, except for a few adapted terms, the concepts are unique CCC System diagnostic concepts. Also, the concept structure is based on a CCC noun clause which is different than the NANDA verb clause structure.

Definition

A nursing diagnosis is "a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses provide the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable" (NANDA, 1992 p. 5). Nursing diagnoses are concepts used to describe actual and potential health problems of clients. They describe clinical nursing practice in a uniform manner.

Description

The CCC of Nursing Diagnoses were derived from the 40,361 nursing diagnoses and/or patient problems collected from the research study patients for an entire episode of care as requiring nursing services including the actual outcome on discharge. The diagnostic narrative statements were statistically analyzed using “key word” sorts resulting in the development of the major categories and sub-categories for the varying concept scopes and which were structured as noun clauses. The diagnoses were also mapped to the interventions that were considered the key ones to treat them.

For more information please visit the "Framework" and "Tables" Sections of this website.