Nursing diagnosis constructions bachelor's degree students

Abstract

Introduction: nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about the response of an individual, family or community to vital processes and real or potential health problems. Building upon the application of clinical reasoning, diagnostic reasoning, and critical thinking may create the stated diagnoses. They are not only influenced by those elements, although they depend on them in a large part for all of their elaboration; factors may also influence them such as their grade average, the teacher's level of education, knowledge of pathophysiology and their school hours.
Objective: identify factors that influence the development of appropriate nursing diagnosis.
Methodology: this is a quantitative, descriptive, study. An instrument on the construction of nursing diagnosis was applied to 103 students. The analysis of results was done with SPSS v15.0 through descriptive statistics,
using frequencies and percentages; Student's t and were applied for independent samples.
Results: 67 % of students use clinical reasoning, 59 % apply diagnostic reasoning and critical thinking, and with this 66 % adequately develop the nursing diagnosis. In relation to factors such as grade average, if the student is working, the level of teacher's education, and the school hours are not factors that influence the adequate construction of diagnosis, whereas theoretical knowledge of patho- physiology does affect it (p > 0.002).
Conclusions: fundamental theoretical knowledge of pathophysiology is necessary for the student to adequately prepare a nursing diagnosis.