Includes bibliographical references (pages 1092-1139) and index.

SECTION 1: The Focus of Nursing Care. Nursing diagnoses : issues and controversies -- Development of nursing diagnoses -- Types and components of nursing diagnoses -- Nursing diagnosis : what it is, what it is not -- Planning care with nursing diagnosis -- Eleven steps to putting it all together with concept mapping -- Transitional individual/family-centered care -- SECTION 2: Manual of Nursing Diagnoses. Part 1: Individual Nursing Diagnoses. Activity intolerance -- Activity planning, Ineffective -- Adverse reaction to iodinated contrast media, Risk for -- Allergy response, Risk for -- Anxiety -- Bleeding, Risk for -- Blood glucose level, Risk for unstable -- Body temperature, Risk for imbalanced -- Bowel incontinence -- Breastfeeding, Ineffective -- Breastfeeding, Interrupted -- Breast milk, Insufficient -- Cardiac output, Decreased -- Caregiver role strain -- Childbearing process, Ineffective -- Comfort, Impaired -- Communication, Impaired -- Confusion, Acute -- Confusion, Chronic -- Constipation, Chronic functional -- Coping, Ineffective -- Coping, Ineffective community -- Decisional conflict -- Diarrhea -- Disuse syndrome, Risk for -- Diversional activity, Deficient -- Dysreflexia, Autonomic -- Elderly syndrome, Frail -- Electrolyte imbalance, Risk for -- Energy field, Disturbed -- Engagement, Compromised -- Environmental interpretation syndrome, Impaired -- Fatigue -- Fear -- Fluid volume, Deficient -- Fluid volume, Excess -- Fluid volume, Risk for imbalanced -- Gastrointestinal motility, Dysfunctional -- Grieving -- Growth and development, Delayed -- Health behavior, Risk-prone -- Health maintenance, Ineffective -- Hopelessness -- Human dignity, Risk for compromised -- Infant behavior, Disorganized -- Infection, Risk for -- Infection transmission, Risk for -- Injury, Risk for -- Intracranial adaptive capacity, Decreased -- Jaundice, Neonatal -- Knowledge, Deficient -- Latex allergy response -- Lifestyle, Sedentary -- Liver function, Risk for impaired -- Loneliness, Risk for -- Memory, impaired -- Mobility, Impaired physical -- Moral distress -- Neglect, Self -- Neglect, Unilateral -- Noncompliance -- Nutrition, Imbalanced -- Obesity -- Post-trauma syndrome -- Powerlessness -- Protection, Ineffective -- Relationship, Ineffective -- Relationships stress [syndrome] -- Resilience, Risk for compromised -- Resilience, Impaired individual -- Respiratory function, Risk for ineffective -- Role performance, Ineffective -- Self-care deficit syndrome -- Self-concept, Disturbed -- Self-harm, Risk for -- Sexuality pattern, Ineffective -- Shock, Risk for -- Sleep pattern, Disturbed -- Social interaction, Impaired -- Social isolation -- Sorrow, Chronic -- Spiritual distress -- Stress overload -- Sudden infant death syndrome, Risk for -- Surgical recovery, Delayed -- Tissue perfusion, Ineffective -- Urinary elimination, Impaired -- Vascular trauma, Risk for -- Violence, Risk for other-directed -- Violence, Risk for self-directed -- Wandering -- Part 2: Family/Home Nursing Diagnoses. Coping, Compromised family -- Coping, Disabled family -- Coping, Readiness for enhanced family -- Family processes, Interrupted -- Family processes, Dysfunctional -- Family processes, Readiness for enhanced -- Home maintenance, Impaired -- Parenting, Impaired -- Parental role conflict -- Parenting, Readiness for enhanced -- Part 3: Community Nursing Diagnoses. Contamination, Community -- Coping, Readiness for enhanced community -- Coping, Ineffective community -- Health, Deficient community -- Health management, Ineffective community -- Part 4: Health Promotion/Nursing Diagnoses. Breastfeeding, Readiness for enhanced -- Childbearing process, Readiness for enhanced -- Comfort, Readiness for enhanced -- Communication, Readiness for enhanced -- Coping, Readiness for enhanced -- Decision making, Readiness for enhanced -- Decision making, Readiness for enhanced emancipated -- Fluid balance, Readiness for enhanced -- Health management, Readiness for enhanced -- Hope, Readiness for enhanced -- Infant behavior, Readiness for enhanced organized -- Knowledge (specify), Readiness for enhanced -- Nutrition, Readiness for enhanced -- Power, Readiness for enhanced -- Relationship, Readiness for enhanced -- Religiosity, Readiness for enhanced -- Resilience, Readiness for enhanced -- Self-care, Readiness for enhanced -- Self-concept, Readiness for enhanced -- Self-health management, Readiness for enhanced -- Sleep, Readiness for enhanced -- Spiritual well-being, Readiness for enhanced -- Urinary elimination, Readiness for enhanced -- SECTION 3: Manual of Collaborative Problems. Risk for complications of cardiac/vascular dysfunction -- Risk for complications of respiratory dysfunction -- Risk for complications of metabolic/immune/hematopoietic dysfunction -- Risk for complications of renal/urinary dysfunction -- Risk for complications of neurologic/sensory dysfunction -- Risk for complications of gastrointestinal/hepatic/biliary dysfunction -- Risk for complications of muscular/skeletal dysfunction -- Risk for complications of medication therapy adverse effects -- Appendix A: Nursing diagnoses grouped under functional health patterns -- Appendix B: Nursing admission data baseline assessment -- Appendix C: Strategies to promote engagement of individual/families for healthier outcomes -- Appendix D: High-risk assessment tools for preventable hospital-acquired conditions.

Reflecting the challenges of ongoing rapid change in the nursing profession, this volume offers definitive guidance on nursing diagnosis, its role in the nursing process and its application to clinical practice.