Includes appendix, bibliography and index.

Contents:1. Nursing diagnosis in the nursing process: Development of nursing diagnosis -- Types and components 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 -- 2. Manual of nursing diagnoses: 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. Part 2: Family/home nursing diagnoses -- Part 3: Community nursing diagnoses -- Part 4: Health promotion/wellness nursing diagnoses -- 3. Manual of collaborative problems: Potential complications for- Cardiac/Vascular dysfunction -- Respiratory dysfunction -- Metabolic/Immune/Hematopoietic dysfunction -- Renal/urinary dysfunction -- Neurologic/sensory dysfunction -- Gastrointestinal/hepatic/biliary dysfunction -- Muscular/skeletal dysfunction -- Reproductive dysfunction -- Medication therapy adverse effects