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A nursing diagnosis is defined as a clinical judgement about individual, family or community responses to actual or potential health problems or life processes which provides the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable. Each diagnosis comprises a label or name for the diagnosis, a definition, defining characteristics, risk factors and related factors. Many diagnoses are further qualified by terms such as risk for, effective, ineffective, impaired, imbalanced, self-care deficit, readiness for, disturbed, decreased etc. The 2009-2011 edition is arranged by concept according to Taxonomy II domains i.e. Health promotion, Nutrition, Elimination and exchange, Activity/Rest, Perception/Cognition, Self-perception, Role relationships, Sexuality, Coping/Stress tolerance, Life principles, Safety/protection, Comfort, Growth/development. It contains new chapters on 'Critical judgement and assessment' and 'How to identify appropriate diagno

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