- Diagnosis Label - Provides a name for a diagnosis which includes, at a minimum, the diagnostic focus (from Axis 1) and the nursing judgment (from Axis 3). It is a concise term or phrase that represents a pattern of related cues. It may include modifiers.
- Definition - Provides a clear, precise description; delineates its meaning and helps differentiate it from similar diagnoses.
- Defining Characteristics - Observable cues/inferences that cluster as manifestations of an actual or health promotion diagnosis. Actual and health-promotion diagnoses have defining characteristics.
- Risk Factors - Environmental factors and physiological, psychological, genetic, or chemical elements that increase the vulnerability of an individual, family, group or community to an unhealthy event. Only risk diagnoses have risk factors.
- Related Factors - Factors that appear to show some type of patterned relationship with the nursing diagnosis. Such factors may be described as antecedent to, associated with, related to, contributing to, or abetting. Only actual nursing diagnoses have related factors.
Components of a Nursing Diagnosis
Components of a nursing diagnosis :