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Hi, Sam,

This is Susy....I want to give you some simple info about a "nursing dx". The nursing dx, is taken from the MD dx. We nurses cannot dx. The nursing dx is used to form the plan-of-action, also called the "nursing care plan". In reality, from years of nursing, the care plans were a complete waste of time. Care plan meetings took all of the staff...DON, dietary, Social Worker, family members, MD if he/she ever cared to show up, etc. This would last one complete day, one day a month. But, as a student, you have to learn to form your own care plan.

I would spend hours on my own care plans to submit to my instructors. Back then, my sources were the PDR, Tabers Medical Dictionary, all of my books....including medical books I purchased on my own. We did not have the words "nursing dx" at all.

So, my suggestion is to look up the MD dx, read it in your references, and then take all mentioned within the MD dx, and form your plan-of-care for everything involved in the MD dx. I hope this makes sense, if not let me know.

You have the advantage of using the internet to look up medical dx. If I ever have a question regarding a disease or a dx, I go to mayoclinic.com. This is a very good up-to-date site. If the MD dx involves CA, then you can go to MDAnderson...located in Houston, TX.  Because the internet sources are more up-to-date, this is the way I search. Once I purchase a book....it is immediately out-of-date due to the giant strides in the medical world. So, you can use both.

Take care, nurse-to-be, and hang in there. Susy

o am not the nursing dx ueen but u can use a tabers to guide you in making up ur own  which is suitable for the patient but still follow nanda guidelines hopre this helps you can even try looking in med-surg book to guide u through

In an instance like this, community health with the Amish, a medical diagnosis in non-existent.  That won't help you.  I wish I could remember more about care plans...I had a great book that was my lifeline in school.  If I remember the name, I'll post it.