Ineffective Therapeutic Regimen Essay

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GORDON’S FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS*
HEALTH PERCEPTION-HEALTH
MANAGEMENT PATTERN
Health-seeking behaviors (specify)
291–293
Ineffective health maintenance 287–291
Ineffective therapeutic regimen management 550–553
Effective therapeutic regimen management
543–545
Ineffective family therapeutic regimen management 547–550
Ineffective community therapeutic regimen management 545–547
Readiness for enhanced therapeutic regimen management 553–555
Noncompliance (specify) 365–369
Risk for infection 322–325
Risk for injury (trauma) 325–328 [this refers to 2 NDs]
Risk for falls 226–230
Risk for perioperative positioning injury
328–331
Risk for poisoning 410–413
Risk for suffocation 528–531
Ineffective
For example, the time axis may not be relevant to each diagnostic situation. The Taxonomic
Domain and Class are noted under each nursing diagnosis heading. An Axis 6 descriptor is included in each nursing diagnosis label.
The ANA, in conjunction with NANDA, proposed that specific nursing diagnoses currently approved and structured according to Taxonomy I Revised be included in the
International Classification of Diseases (ICD) within the section “Family of Health-Related Classifications.” While the World Health Organization did not accept this initial proposal because of lack of documentation of the usefulness of nursing diagnoses at the international level, the NANDA list

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has been accepted by SNOMED (Systemized Nomenclature of
Medicine) for inclusion in its international coding system and is included in the Unified Medical Language System of the
National Library of Medicine. Today, researchers from around the world are validating nursing diagnoses in support for resubmission and acceptance in future editions of
The purpose of this step is to draw conclusions regarding the client’s specific needs or human responses of concern so that effective care can be planned and delivered. This process of data analysis uses diagnostic reasoning (a form of clinical judgment) in which conclusions are reached about the meaning of the collected data to determine whether or not nursing intervention is indicated. The end product is the client diagnostic statement that combines the specific client need with the related factors or risk factors (etiology), and defining characteristics (or cues) as appropriate. The status of the client’s needs are categorized as actual or currently existing diagnoses and potential or risk diagnoses that could develop due to specific vulnerabilities of the client. Ongoing changes in healthcare delivery and computerization of the client record require a commonality of communication to ensure continuity of care for the client moving from one setting/level of healthcare to another. The use of standardized terminology or NANDA International nursing diagnosis labels provides nurses with a common language for identifying client needs.
Furthermore, the use of standardized nursing