NANDA nursing diagnosis list is made by NANDA International which stands for North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. This association was founded in 1982 for the purpose of standardising the nursing terminology. The association develops, researches, disseminates and refines the nomenclature, criteria, and taxonomy of nursing diagnoses.
This article contains the complete NANDA nursing diagnosis list 2015-2017. This latest list is an update of the old NANDA nursing diagnosis list 2012-2014.
This latest edition of NANDA nursing diagnosis contains 235 nursing diagnoses, 26 are newly introduced and 16 are revised diagnoses.
UPDATE (December 2017):
NANDA International has recently published an update for nursing diagnoses 2018-2020. You can find the new nursing diagnoses list here: NANDA nursing diagnosis list 2018-2020.
Download the complete NANDA nursing diagnosis list 2015-2017 in PDF format.
NANDA-I Definition of a Nursing diagnosis
A nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. A nursing diagnosis provides the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable.
NANDA Nursing Diagnosis List For 2015-2017
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 1: health Promotion
Class 1. Health awareness
- Deficient diversional activity
- Sedentary lifestyle
Class 2. Health management
- Frail elderly syndrome
- Risk for frail elderly syndrome
- Deficient community
- Risk-prone health behavior
- Ineffective health maintenance
- Ineffective health management
- Readiness for enhanced health management
- Ineffective family health management
- Noncompliance
- Ineffective protection
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 2: nutrition
Class 1. Ingestion
- Insufficient breast milk
- Ineffective breastfeeding
- Interrupted breastfeeding
- Readiness for enhanced breastfeeding
- Ineffective infant feeding pattern
- Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements
- Readiness for enhanced nutrition
- Obesity
- Overweight
- Risk for overweight
- Impaired swallowing
Class 2. Digestion
None at present time
Class 3. Absorption
None at present time
Class 4. Metabolism
- Risk for unstable blood glucose level
- Neonatal jaundice
- Risk for neonatal jaundice
- Risk for impaired liver function
Class 5. Hydration
- Risk for electrolyte imbalance
- Readiness for enhanced fluid balance
- Deficient fluid volume
- Risk for deficient fluid volume
- Excess fluid volume
- Risk for imbalanced fluid volume
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 3: elimination and exchange
Class 1. Urinary function
- Impaired urinary elimination
- Readiness for enhanced urinary elimination
- Functional urinary incontinence
- Overflow urinary incontinence
- Reflex urinary incontinence
- Stress urinary incontinence
- Urge urinary incontinence
- Risk for urge urinary incontinence
- Urinary retention
Class 2. Gastrointestinal function
- Constipation
- Risk for constipation
- Chronic functional constipation
- Risk for chronic functional constipation
- Perceived constipation
- Diarrhea
- Dysfunctional gastrointestinal motility
- Risk for dysfunctional gastrointestinal motility
- Bowel incontinence
Class 3. Integumentary function
None at this time
Class 4. Respiratory function
- Impaired gas exchange
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 4: activity/rest
Class 1. Sleep/rest
- Insomnia
- Sleep deprivation
- Readiness for enhanced sleep
- Disturbed sleep pattern
Class 2. Activity/exercise
- Risk for disuse syndrome
- Impaired bed mobility
- Impaired physical mobility
- Impaired wheelchair mobility
- Impaired sitting
- Impaired standing
- Impaired transfer ability
- Impaired walking
Class 3. Energy balance
- Fatigue
- Wandering
Class 4. Cardiovascular/pulmonary responses
- Activity intolerance
- Risk for activity intolerance
- Ineffective breathing pattern
- Decreased cardiac output
- Risk for decreased cardiac output
- Risk for impaired cardiovascular function
- Risk for ineffective gastrointestinal perfusion
- Risk for ineffective renal perfusion
- Impaired spontaneous ventilation
- Risk for decreased cardiac tissue perfusion
- Risk for ineffective cerebral tissue perfusion
- Ineffective peripheral tissue perfusion
- Risk for ineffective peripheral tissue perfusion
- Dysfunctional ventilatory weaning response
Class 5. Self-care
- Impaired home maintenance
- Bathing self-care deficit
- Dressing self-care deficit
- Feeding self-care deficit
- Toileting self-care deficit
- Readiness for enhanced self-care
- Self-neglect
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 5: Perception/Cognition
Class 1. Attention
- Unilateral neglect
Class 2. Orientation
None at this time
Class 3. Sensation/perception
None at this time
Class 4. Cognition
- Acute confusion
- Risk for acute confusion
- Chronic confusion
- Labile emotional control
- Ineffective impulse control
- Deficient knowledge
- Readiness for enhanced knowledge
- Impaired memory
Class 5. Communication
- Readiness for enhanced communication
- Impaired verbal communication
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 6: self-Perception
Class 1. Self-concept
- Readiness for enhanced hope
- Hopelessness
- Risk for compromised human dignity
- Disturbed personal identity
- Risk for disturbed personal identity
- Readiness for enhanced self-concept
Class 2. Self-esteem
- Chronic low self-esteem
- Risk for chronic low self-esteem
- Situational low self-esteem
- Risk for situational low self-esteem
Class 3. Body image
- Disturbed body image
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 7: role relationships
Class 1. Caregiving roles
- Caregiver role strain
- Risk for caregiver role strain
- Impaired parenting
- Readiness for enhanced parenting
- Risk for impaired parenting
Class 2. Family relationships
- Risk for impaired attachment
- Dysfunctional family processes
- Interrupted family processes
- Readiness for enhanced family processes
Class 3. Role performance
- Ineffective relationship
- Readiness for enhanced relationship
- Risk for ineffective relationship
- Parental role conflict
- Ineffective role performance
- Impaired social interaction
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 8: sexuality
Class 1. Sexual identity
None at present time
Class 2. Sexual function
- Sexual dysfunction
- Ineffective sexuality pattern
Class 3. Reproduction
- Ineffective childbearing process
- Readiness for enhanced childbearing process
- Risk for ineffective childbearing process
- Risk for disturbed maternal–fetal dyad
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 9: Coping/stress tolerance
Class 1. Post-trauma responses Post-trauma syndrome
- Risk for post-trauma syndrome
- Rape-trauma syndrome
- Relocation stress syndrome
- Risk for relocation stress syndrome
Class 2. Coping responses
- Ineffective activity planning
- Risk for ineffective activity planning
- Anxiety (Read more: Nursing Care Plan For Anxiety)
- Defensive coping
- Ineffective coping
- Readiness for enhanced coping
- Ineffective community coping
- Readiness for enhanced community coping
- Compromised family coping
- Disabled family coping
- Readiness for enhanced family coping
- Death anxiety
- Ineffective denial
- Fear
- Grieving
- Complicated grieving
- Risk for complicated grieving
- Impaired mood regulation
- Readiness for enhanced power
- Powerlessness
- Risk for powerlessness
- Impaired resilience
- Readiness for enhanced resilience
- Risk for impaired resilience
- Chronic sorrow
- Stress overload
Class 3. Neurobehavioral stress
- Decreased intracranial adaptive capacity
- Autonomic dysreflexia
- Risk for autonomic dysreflexia
- Disorganized infant behavior
- Readiness for enhanced organized infant behavior
- Risk for disorganized infant behavior
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 10: life Principles
Class 1. Values
None at this time
Class 2. Beliefs
- Readiness for enhanced spiritual well-being
Class 3. Value/belief/action congruence
- Readiness for enhanced decision-making
- Decisional conflict
- Impaired emancipated decision-making
- Readiness for enhanced emancipated
- Decision-making
- Risk for impaired emancipated decision-making
- Moral distress
- Impaired religiosity
- Readiness for enhanced religiosity
- Risk for impaired religiosity
- Spiritual distress
- Risk for spiritual distress
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 11: safety/Protection
Class 1. Infection
- Risk for infection
Class 2. Physical injury
- Ineffective airway clearance
- Risk for aspiration
- Risk for bleeding (Read more: Nursing Care plan for Risk for Bleeding)
- Risk for dry eye
- Risk for fallsRisk for injury
- Risk for corneal injury
- Risk for perioperative positioning injury
- Risk for thermal injury
- Risk for urinary tract injury
- Impaired dentition
- Impaired oral mucous membrane
- Risk for impaired oral mucous membrane
- Risk for peripheral neurovascular dysfunction
- Risk for pressure ulcer
- Risk for shock
- Impaired skin integrity
- Risk for impaired skin integrity
- Risk for sudden infant death syndrome
- Risk for suffocationDelayed surgical recovery
- Risk for delayed surgical recovery
- Impaired tissue integrity
- Risk for impaired tissue integrity
- Risk for trauma
- Risk for vascular trauma
Class 3. Violence
- Risk for other-directed violence
- Risk for self-directed violence
- Self-mutilation
- Risk for self-mutilation
- Risk for suicide
Class 4. Environmental hazards
- Contamination
- Risk for contamination
- Risk for poisoning
Class 5. Defensive processes
- Risk for adverse reaction to iodinated contrast media
- Risk for allergy response
- Latex allergy response
- Risk for latex allergy response
Class 6. Thermoregulation
- Risk for imbalanced body temperature
- Hyperthermia
- Hypothermia
- Risk for hypothermia
- Risk for perioperative hypothermia
- Ineffective thermoregulation
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 12: Comfort
Class 1. Physical comfort
- Impaired comfort
- Readiness for enhanced comfort
- Nausea
- Acute pain
- Chronic pain
- Labor pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
Class 2. Environmental comfort
- Impaired comfort
- Readiness for enhanced comfort
Class 3. Social comfort
- Impaired comfort
- Readiness for enhanced comfort
- Risk for loneliness
- Social isolation
Nanda Nursing Diagnosis list – Domain 13: growth/Development
Class 1. Growth
- Risk for disproportionate growth
Class 2. Development
- Risk for delayed development
Nanda Nursing Diagnoses accepted for Development and Clinical Validation 2015–2017
- Disturbed energy field
Download the NANDA nursing diagnosis list 2015-2017 in PDF format.
Source: NANDA International. (2017). Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2018-2020.