Includes bibliographical references (951-983) and index.

Nursing Diagnosis in the Nursing Process -- Development of Nursing Diagnosis -- Nursing Diagnosis: Process or Outcome? -- The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association -- NANDA Taxonomy -- Types and Components of Nursing Diagnoses -- Risk and High-Risk Nursing Diagnoses -- Possible Nursing Diagnoses -- Wellness Nursing Diagnoses -- Syndrome Nursing Diagnoses -- Non-NANDA-Approved Diagnoses -- Diagnostic Statements -- Nursing Diagnosis: What It Is, What It Is Not -- Understanding Collaborative Problems -- Collaborative Problem Diagnostic Statements -- Differentiating Nursing Diagnoses From Collaborative Problems -- Nursing Diagnoses: Assessment and Diagnosis -- Planning Care With Nursing Diagnosis -- Are Care Plans Necessary? -- The Care Planning Process -- Implementation -- Evaluation -- Multidisciplinary Care Planning -- Care Planning Systems -- Case Study Applications of Care Planning -- Nursing Diagnoses: Issues and Controversies -- Why Can't We Just Use the Words We've Always Used? -- Other Disciplines Will Not Understand Our Diagnoses -- Clients Will Not Understand Our Diagnoses -- Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Anesthetists, and Nurse Midwives Do Not Need Nursing Diagnoses -- Nursing Diagnoses Are Not Culturally Sensitive -- Nursing Diagnosis Is Unethical -- Nursing Diagnoses Can Violate Confidentiality -- Manual of Nursing Diagnoses -- Activity Intolerance -- Related to Insufficient Knowledge of Adaptive Techniques Needed Secondary to COPD.