Includes appendix, bibliography and index.

Contents: Section One: Nursing diagnosis in the nursing process: Development of nursing diagnosis -- Types and compnents of nursing diagnosis -- Nursing diagnosis: What it is, what it is not -- Nursing diagnoses: Assessment and diagnosis -- Planning care with nursing diagnosis -- Nursing diagnoses: Issues and controversies -- Section two: Manual of nursing diagnosis: Activity intolerance -- Decreased intracranial adaptive capacity -- Impaired adjustment -- Anxiety -- Chronic pain -- Nausea -- Constipation -- Defensive coping -- Diarrhea -- Fatigue -- Grieving -- Growth and development -- Hopelessness -- Risk for falls -- Altered dentition -- Respiratory function, risk for ineffective -- Impaired gas exchange -- Risk for suicide -- Sexual dysfunction -- Spiritual distress -- Tissue Perfusion, Ineffective peripheral -- Stress incontinence -- Section three: Manual of collaborative problems: Potential complication: Cardiac/Vascular -- Potential complication: Muscular/Skeletal -- Potential complication: Medication Therapy adverse effects.