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Impaired Oral Mucous Membrane Integrity is the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis for injury to the lips and the soft tissues of the mouth, such as sores, ulcers, cracks, dryness, bleeding, or white patches. It is most common with chemotherapy, radiation to the head and neck, dehydration, oxygen therapy, mouth breathing, and a breathing tube. Common companion … See Nursing Diagnoses
Dizziness is a symptom, not a NANDA-I diagnosis, so the nursing diagnosis you choose depends on what the dizziness is doing to the client. The most common choice is Risk for Adult Falls, because dizziness is a major fall risk factor. Others are Deficient Fluid Volume when dehydration causes lightheadedness on standing, Nausea when vertigo … See Nursing Diagnoses
Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that spreads through the air and most often affects the lungs. Many people carry it as latent TB infection, which causes no symptoms and is not contagious; active TB disease causes cough, fever, night sweats, and weight loss and can spread to others. The nursing … See Nursing Diagnoses
Jaundice is yellowing of the skin, the whites of the eyes, and the mucous membranes caused by too much bilirubin in the blood. It is a sign, not a disease: the cause is either too much red blood cell breakdown, a liver that cannot process bilirubin, or a blocked bile duct. The nursing diagnoses used … See Nursing Diagnoses
Polyhydramnios is too much amniotic fluid around the fetus, diagnosed on ultrasound after 20 weeks when the amniotic fluid index (AFI) is 24 cm or more or the deepest vertical pocket is 8 cm or more. Most mild cases have no known cause, but diabetes, fetal anomalies that affect swallowing, multiple pregnancy, and fetal anemia … See Nursing Diagnoses