Resumen de Explication of the Nature and Meaning of Nursing Diagnosis
Katherine McLaughlin Renpenning, Gerd Bekel SozWiss, Mary J. Denyes, Dorothea E. Orem, Susan G. Taylor
The purpose of this article is to stimulate discussion and further investigation about the nature and meaning of nursing diagnosis. Premises that place nursing diagnosis within the framework of self-care deficit nursing theory are presented. Also presented are propositions about nurses as diagnosticians, the process features of nursing diagnosis, and propositions about nursing diagnostic questions. The intellectual/cognitive processes essential to nursing diagnosis are discussed and investigative questions for nursing diagnostic stages proposed.
