


Impaired Oral Mucous Membrane: Disruption of the lips and/or soft tissue of the oral cavity. Impaired Gas Exchange: Excess or deficit in oxygenation and/or carbon dioxide elimination at the alveolar-capillary membrane. Impaired Dentition: Disruption in tooth development or eruption patterns or structural integrity of the teeth. Imbalanced Nutrition: More Than Body Requirements: Intake of nutrients that exceeds metabolic needs. Imbalanced Nutrition: Less Than Body Requirements: Intake of nutrients insufficient to meet metabolic needs. Hypothermia: Body temperature below the normal range. Hyperthermia: Body temperature elevated above the normal range. Hopelessness: Subjective state in which an individual sees limited or no alternatives or personal choices available and is unable to mobilize energy on their own behalf. Grieving: A normal complex process that includes emotional, physical, spiritual, social, and intellectual responses and behaviors by which individuals, families, and communities incorporate an actual, anticipated, or perceived loss into their daily lives. This refers to dehydration, water loss alone without change in sodium.ĭeficient Knowledge: Absence or deficiency of cognitive information related to a specific topic.ĭiarrhea: This nursing diagnosis is defined as the passage of loose, unformed stools.ĭisturbed Body Image: Confusion in the mental picture of one’s physical self.ĭisturbed Thought Processes: The state in which an individual experiences a disruption in such mental activities as conscious thought, reality orientation, problem-solving, judgment, and comprehension related to coping, personality, and/or mental disorder.Įxcess Fluid Volume: Increased isotonic fluid retention.įatigue: An overwhelming sustained sense of exhaustion and decreased capacity for physical and mental work at usual level.įear: Response to the perceived threat that is consciously recognized as danger. A duration of greater than 6 months.Ĭonstipation: Decrease in normal frequency of defecation accompanied by the difficult or incomplete passage of stool and/or passage of excessively hard, dry stool.ĭecreased Cardiac Output: Inadequate blood pumped by the heart to meet the metabolic demands of the body.ĭeficient Fluid Volume: Decreased intravascular, interstitial, and/or intracellular fluid. Activity Intolerance: Insufficient physiologic or psychological energy to endure or complete required or desired daily activities.Īcute Confusion: Abrupt onset of a cluster of global, transient changes and disturbances in attention, cognition, psychomotor activity, level of consciousness, or the sleep/wake cycle.Īcute Pain: Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage sudden or slow onset of any intensity from mild to severe with an anticipated or predictable end and a duration less than 6 months.Īnxiety: Vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread accompanied by an autonomic response.īowel Incontinence: Change in normal bowel habits characterized by the involuntary passage of stool.Ĭaregiver Role Strain: Difficulty in performing family caregiver role.Ĭhronic Confusion: An irreversible, long-standing, and/or progressive deterioration of intellect and personality characterized by decreased ability to interpret environmental stimuli, decreased capacity for intellectual thought processes and manifested by disturbances of memory, orientation, and behavior.Ĭhronic Pain: Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage.
