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Risk diagnoses represent vulnerabilities to potential problems, and health promotion diagnoses identify areas which can be enhanced to improve health. Whereas a medical diagnosis identifies a disorder, a nursing diagnosis identifies the unique ways in which individuals respond to health or life processes or crises. [2]
U.S. men are 5 times as likely to die from suicide within the 15- to 19-year-old demographic, and 6 times as likely as women to die from suicide within the 20- to 24-year-old demographic. [22] Gelder, Mayou and Geddes reported that women are more likely to die from suicide by taking overdose of drugs than men. [ 11 ]
NANDA International (formerly the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association) is a professional organization of nurses interested in standardized nursing terminology, that was officially founded in 1982 and develops, researches, disseminates and refines the nomenclature, criteria, and taxonomy of nursing diagnosis.
In 2021, the global rate of suicide deaths for men was 12.3 per 100,000, more than double the rate for women, which stood at 5.9 per 100,000 population. However, the sex disparity was uneven across regions, with a male-to-female ratio ranging from as low as 1.4 in the Southeast Asia Region to nearly 4.0 in the Region of the Americas. [10]
For example, from 1999 to 2004, the rate of suicide for Native American adolescent males is nearly 20 per 100,000, while the rate for African-American females is roughly 1 per 100,000. [37] According to the CDC, as of 2013 the suicide rates of Whites and Native Americans are more than twice the rates of African Americans and Hispanics. [38]
Although most of the diagnoses included herein have been accepted for clinical testing by NANDA-I (NANDA, 2014), some are specific types of more general diagnoses; e.g., Risk for Poisoning: Drug Toxicity is viewed as a specific type of Risk for Injury. Other diagnoses that have not been approved by NANDA-I (e.g., Depression and Relocation ...
Nursing assessment is the gathering of information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual status by a licensed Registered Nurse. Nursing assessment is the first step in the nursing process .
The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, or C-SSRS, is a suicidal ideation and behavior rating scale created by researchers at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh and New York University to evaluate suicide risk. [1] It rates an individual's degree of suicidal ideation on a scale, ranging from "wish to ...