The NANDA-I classification is a set of nursing diagnoses developed by the NANDA International. This purpose of the terminology is to provide nursing diagnoses used to describe patients’ responses to actual or potential health problems and life processes responses to diseases rather than classifying the conditions of diseases and disorders.

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