Nursing diagnosis identification by nurses in burn wards: A descriptive cross‐sectional study

Abstract

The mean number of diagnoses per record was 1.94. The most frequent diagnosis was in the domain of Safety/Protection and the top two prevalent nursing diagnoses in Sina hospital were a risk for infection and risk for falls. From all of the detected diagnostic, about 83% were determinedly not related to one of 247 labels of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. Given that nurses provide nursing care as requested by physicians and patient care needs are not assessed and recorded by them, it can be concluded that there was no nursing thinking behind their nursing care.