We celebrated our 40th anniversary this year, at our conference in Houston, Texas. At that event, we had the opportunity to acknowledge and thank several who were among the 1973 founding members of our original organization, the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. Nurses who worked at the grassroots level to... Continue reading

Nursing is so much more than following doctor’s orders, isn’t it? Then don’t we need to have one terminology that allows us to identify and communicate our knowledge about our clinical judgment – to one another, our health care partners, and our patients? Continue reading

One of the most interesting things about my role as Executive Director of NANDA International, is that I get a lot of questions from nurses and students who are working with NANDA-I nursing diagnoses. Many of the questions seem to revolve around the same general theme: the students are given... Continue reading

A meeting was held in June, in Kassel, Germany, to discuss and resolve issues related to the German translation of the NANDA-I book Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2012-2014. I have had the opportunity to participate in translation consensus meetings for German-speaking countries for the last two editions of This... Continue reading

Bringing you exciting news about our primary publications! NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2012-2014 Click here to order. Click here to order at NANDA-I Member Discount. (Login Required) This new edition, published last November, is now available in electronic format! Choose from E-Book reader formats, Kindle or Nook.* Nursing... Continue reading

One of the most frequent questions we get goes something like this….”My patient has Congestive Heart Failure. What is the highest priority/most likely nursing diagnosis?” There is no right answer, because it’s the wrong question! Assigning a nursing diagnosis based on a medical diagnosis skips several steps essential to optimal... Continue reading