Question

3. Could two patients with the same medical diagnosis have different nursing diagnoses? Please explain your answer. (typed please)

Answer 1

Yes it may be.

The patients having the same medical diagnosis for the specific disease or illness.

It may be same as the main aim is to diagnose the pathology of the disease.

It provides the base for the nursing diagnosis, because after the complete medical diagnosis it is to start the nursing diagnosis with utmost care.

While nursing diagnosis is based on the analysis of the data of the patient. It include the study of the patient's health status, etiology and various factors responsible for certain disease or illness.finally the nursing diagnosis offers the base for the best selection of the nursing interventions to achieve best results for the patients.

So the nursing diagnosis differs form patients to patient even with the same medical diagnosis.