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What is the difference between a medical diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis? A medical diagnosis deals with disease or medical condition. A nursing diagnosis deals with human response to actual or potential health problems and life processes. For example, a medical diagnosis of Cerebrovascular Attack [CVA or Stroke] provides
information about the patient’s pathology. The complimentary nursing diagnoses of Impaired verbal communication, risk for falls, interrupted family processes and powerlessness provide a more holistic understanding of the impact of that stroke on this particular patient and his family – they also direct nursing interventions to obtain patient-specific outcomes. VIDEO FAQ In this video, NANDA-I Executive Director, Dr. T. Heather Herdman, discusses the differences between medical
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Answer: b
The patient's condition requires immediate performance of the lifesaving steps of the nursing process. All other answers are secondary actions. The nurse later resumes all interventions for previously identified nursing diagnoses and evaluates the success of the acute care plan for management of the cardiac arrest. Nurses do not seek the input of the physician for creation of nursing diagnoses.
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10. What signs and symptoms would the nurse appropriately cluster for a patient with extreme anxiety? [Select all that apply.]
a. Denies any difficulty falling asleep
b. Elevated pulse rate auscultated at 140 BPM
c. Continuous foot tapping throughout intake interview
d. Demonstrates how to give insulin self-injection without hesitation
e. Patient states, "I feel nervous all the time, especially when I am
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What is the difference between a nursing diagnosis and medical diagnosis?
A nursing diagnosis is initiated by a nurse and describes a response to the medical diagnosis. A medical diagnosis is given by a doctor to a patient to define a medical condition/disease or injury.
What is the difference between medical and nursing care?
Nursing is concerned with health, whereas medicine focuses on cure. Also, there is a functional difference between care and healing. It is useful here first to consider the history of nursing as it pertains to ethics.
What is the difference between a clinical diagnosis and a medical diagnosis?
Clinical diagnosis. A diagnosis made on the basis of medical signs and reported symptoms, rather than diagnostic tests. Laboratory diagnosis. A diagnosis based significantly on laboratory reports or test results, rather than the physical examination of the patient.
Which statement best describes the relationship between nursing diagnosis and medical diagnosis?
Which statement best describes the relationship of medical diagnoses and nursing diagnoses? Medical diagnoses may be interrelated to nursing diagnoses.