One way the nurse can differentiate between nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems and identify the nursing diagnoses is to think about whether the nurse can address the problem by establishing a plan of interventions that:
1. All may be prescribed by a nurse.
2. Require a health care provider's order.
3. Require further assessment by a speech therapist.
4. Require intervention by a respiratory therapist.
All may be prescribed by a nurse.
Rationale: When a problem can be addressed by interventions that all may be prescribed by a nurse, it is a nursing diagnosis. Because health care provider's orders, a speech therapist, or a respiratory therapist are needed to address the other problems, these are not problems that can be addressed independently by the nurse, so they represent collaborative problems.
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