NANDA stands for North American Nursing Diagnosis Association was founded in 1982.
The organization grew out of the National Conference Group, a task force established in 1973, at the First National Conference on the Classification of Nursing Diagnoses, held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
In 2002, NANDA became NANDA International (NANDA-I) to reflect increasing worldwide interest in the field of nursing diagnosis terminology.
NANDA International has approved more than 200 nursing diagnoses for clinical use, testing and refinement.
NANDA nursing diagnosis is one of the standardized nursing languages recognized by the American Nurses Association (ANA) as providing clinically useful terminology that supports nursing practice. NANDA-I has also established a liaison with the International Council of Nursing to support and contribute to the global effort to standardize the language of health care with the goal that NANDA nursing diagnosis will be included in the International Classification of Diseases. In the meantime, they are included in the United States version of International Classification of Diseases-Clinical Modifications (ICD-10CM).
The NANDA nursing diagnosis labels have also been combined with Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) to create a complete nursing language that has been coded into the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED). Inclusion in an international coded terminology such as SNOMED is essential if nursing’s contribution to healthcare is to be recognized in the computer database. Indexing of the entire medical record supports disease management activities, research, and analysis of outcomes for quality improvement for all healthcare disciplines. Coding also supports telehealth (the use of telecommunications technology to provide healthcare information and services over distance) and facilitates access to healthcare data across care settings and various computer systems.
The use of standardized terminology or NANDA International (NANDA-I) nursing diagnosis labels provides nurses with a common language for identifying client needs. Furthermore, the use of standardized nursing diagnosis labels also promotes identification of appropriate goals, provides acuity information, is useful in creating standards for nursing practice, provides a base for quality improvement, and facilitates research supporting evidence-based nursing practices.
Below is NANDA nursing diagnosis definition
The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International (NANDA-I) defines nursing diagnosis as: A clinical judgment about individual, family or community responses to actual and potential health problems or life processes. Nursing diagnoses provide the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable.
Since the inception of the first conference on nursing diagnoses in 1973, NANDA-I has supported research on the development of a nursing diagnosis classification system. The initial research conducted was identification studies, in which clinicians repeatedly observed a condition in order to label a nursing diagnosis.
NANDA Nursing Diagnosis Samples
Here are the samples of NANDA Nursing Diagnosis
- Activity Intolerance
- Ineffective Tissue Perfusion
- Ineffective Coping
- Fear
- Grieving
- Hopelessness
- Post-Trauma Syndrome
- Relocation Stress Syndrome
NANDA Nursing Diagnosis or NANDA homepage can be found here.
