Question

What are important things to consider when making a community nursing diagnosis?

Answer 1

In a community nursing diagnosis a nurse should focus on the care to be given to a patient. The nursing diagnosis is the basic for state of health to direct care planning in nurse’s choice of practice. A community nurse aids as diagnostician through the use of nursing diagnosis.

In a community nursing diagnosis, a nurse should consider individualised approach to patient’s situations, his or her personal preferences and their needs by serving to direct the enduring component required in nursing procedures. They include planning, implementation and evaluation. The findings from the assessment by a sound diagnostic reasoning are used as a key tool for clinical decision making by health care professionals.

NANDA approved nursing diagnosis should be used in patient care and educational facilities.