The nursing diagnosis is a crucial part of the nursing process. There are four types of nursing diagnosis
a. What are they and how do these relate to the client, the family, and the community?
b. How do they relate to the actual problem, potential problem, and the risk for any future problems?
c. How does the assessment process affect the nursing diagnosis?
d. How do the LPN/LVN and RN roles differ in the assessment portion of the nursing process?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. Actual, health promotion, risk, and syndrome diagnoses are the four different diagnoses to apply to the client, family, and community. Discuss on how each relates to the client, family, and community and how one can impact the others. For instance, a potential or risk problem may start with a client, affect one family, and subsequently affect a community if not addressed. Students could go into detail on a particular instance or disease or use an individual with an actual problem, which cascades into the other diagnoses.
b. Here, the students could discuss a client diagnosed with an actual problem who may also be a risk for a potential problem, and then be at risk for a future problem through lifestyle, diet, or other health issues.
c. Discuss on how accurate assessment taking is important; the more individualized, the nursing diagnosis can be.
The importance of history and assessment skills, along with applying actual problems to actual diagnosis, potential problems to potential diagnosis, etc., could be discussed.
d. LPN/LVNs report the information they take, suggesting potential or actual problems, and the RN examines, analyzes the information, gathers, and forms nursing diagnoses from the information obtained.
Discussion on these two roles and how they are changing on the local level could be discussed.
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