NANDA-APPROVED NURSING DIAGNOSES 2015-2017 [Selected List]
Domain 1. Health Promotion
Deficient community health
Deficient diversional activity
Frail elderly syndrome
Ineffective family health management
Ineffective health maintenance
Ineffective health management
Ineffective protection
Noncompliance
Readiness for enhanced health management
Risk for frail elderly syndrome
Risk-prone health behaviour
Sedentary lifestyle
Domain 3: Elimination and exchange
Bowel incontinence
Chronic functional constipation
Constipation
Diarrhea
Dysfunctional gastrointestinal motility
Functional urinary incontinence
Impaired gas exchange
Impaired urinary elimination
Overflow urinary incontinence
Perceived constipation
Readiness for enhanced urinary elimination
Reflex urinary incontinence
Risk for chronic functional constipation
Risk for constipation
Risk for dysfunctional gastrointestinal motility
Risk for urge urinary incontinence
Stress urinary incontinence
Urge urinary incontinence
Urinary retention
Domain 2: Nutrition
Excess fluid volume
Imbalanced nutrition: less than body
requirements
Impaired swallowing
Obesity
Overweight
Readiness for enhanced fluid balance
Readiness for enhanced nutrition
Risk for deficient fluid volume
Risk for electrolyte imbalance
Risk for impaired liver function
Risk for overweight
Risk for unstable blood glucose level
Domain 4: Activity / Rest
Activity intolerance
Bathing self-care deficit
Decreased cardiac output
Disturbed sleep pattern
Dressing self-care deficit
Fatigue
Feeding self-care deficit
Impaired bed mobility
Impaired physical mobility
Impaired sitting
Impaired spontaneous ventilation
Impaired standing
Impaired transfer ability
Impaired walking
Impaired wheelchair mobility
Ineffective breathing pattern
Ineffective peripheral tissue perfusion
Insomnia
Readiness for enhanced self-care
Readiness for enhanced sleep
Risk for activity intolerance
Risk for decreased cardiac output
Risk for decreased cardiac tissue perfusion
Risk for impaired cardiovascular function
Risk for ineffective gastrointestinal perfusion
Risk for ineffective peripheral tissue perfusion
Risk for ineffective renal perfusion
Sleep deprivation
Toileting self-care deficit
Domain 5. Perception/cognition
Acute confusion
Chronic confusion
Deficient knowledge
Impaired memory
Impaired verbal communication
Ineffective impulse control
Labile emotional control
Readiness for enhanced communication
Readiness for enhanced knowledge
Risk for acute confusion
Domain 7: Coping / stress tolerance
Anxiety
Class: Coping response
Fear
Grieving
Ineffective coping
Post-trauma syndrome
Relocation stress syndrome
Risk for post-trauma syndrome
Risk for powerlessness
Risk for relocation stress syndrome
Stress overload
Domain 6: Self-perception
Disturbed body image
Domain 8: Safety / protection
Delayed surgical recovery
Hyperthermia
Hypothermia
Impaired dentition
Impaired oral mucous membrane
Impaired skin integrity
Impaired tissue integrity
Ineffective airway clearance
Ineffective thermoregulation
Risk for aspiration
Risk for bleeding
Risk for corneal injury
Risk for delayed surgical recovery
Risk for dry eye
Risk for falls
Risk for hypothermia
Risk for imbalanced body temperature
Risk for impaired oral mucous membrane
Risk for impaired skin integrity
Risk for impaired tissue integrity
Risk for infection
Risk for injury
Risk for perioperative hypothermia
Risk for perioperative positioning injury
Risk for peripheral neurovascular dysfunction
Risk for pressure ulcer
Risk for shock
Risk for sudden infant death syndrome
Risk for suffocation
Risk for thermal injury
Risk for trauma
Risk for urinary tract injury
Risk for vascular trauma
 Domain 9: Comfort Domain 10: Sexuality
Acute pain Sexual dysfunction
Chronic pain Ineffective sexuality pattern
Chronic pain syndrome Ineffective childbearing process
Impaired comfort Risk for ineffective childbearing process
Labor pain Readiness for enhanced childbearing process
Nausea Risk for disturbed maternal–fetal dyad
Readiness for enhanced comfort

Herdman, T.H. & Kamitsuru, S. (Eds.). (2014). NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions &
Classification, 2015–2017. (pp. 66-78). Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.