Nanda Nursing Diagnosis

Anxiety, worry, fear, is a common psychological symptoms and can be felt by each individual. Anxiety reactions usually occur frequently in adults, but children can also face the anxiety, such as temporarily abandoned by parents, first day of school or at the time wanted the exam. In the case of the elderly, the reaction of anxiety often occur when they face the pressure (stress) with the difficulties that can be faced and the difficulties that can not be faced, such as work pressure, pressure at school / college, the pressure on the issue of romance as well as pressure on health issues. Excessive anxiety reaction and settled continuously over a considerable period of time can turn into a disorder, which anxiety disorder. The nature of anxiety disorders can produce a response to the physical and psychological. Anxiety disorder is a serious mental illness characterized by feelings of great anxiety and excessive, such as feelings of excessive fear, heart pounding harder, shortness of br...

According to Freud (in Alwisol, 2005: 28) says that anxiety is the ego function to warn people about the possibility of a danger, so it can be prepared the appropriate adaptive response. Anxiety serves as a mechanism that protects the ego because the anxiety signal to us that there is a danger and if not done the right thing, the danger will increase to ego defeated. Lefrancois (1980) states that anxiety is an unpleasant emotional reaction, which is characterized by fear. However, according to Lefrancois, the anxiety danger is ambiguous, for example there is a threat, given the barriers to personal desires, their depressed feelings that arise in consciousness. The concept of anxiety plays a very fundamental theories of stress and adjustment (Lazarus, 1961). According to Post (1978), anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state, which is characterized by subjective feelings like stress, fear, worry, and also characterized by active central nervous system. Freud (in Arndt, 1974) describes an...

Definition : Vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread accompanied by an autonomic response (the source often nonspecific or unknown to the individual); a feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger. It is an alerting signal that warns of impending danger and enables the individual to take measures to deal with the threat. Anxiety is probably present at some level in every individual’s life, but the degree and the frequency with which it manifests differs broadly. Each individual’s response to anxiety is different. Some people are able to use the emotional edge that anxiety provokes to stimulate creativity or problem-solving abilities; others can become immobilized to a pathological degree. The feeling is generally categorized into four levels for treatment purposes: mild, moderate, severe, and panic. The nurse can encounter the anxious patient anywhere in the hospital or community. The presence of the nurse may lend support to the anxious pat...

Nursing Care Plans for Anxiety A nursing care plan for Anxiety is used when a patient feels a vague, uneasy or discomfort or dread accompanied by an autonomic response (the source often nonspecific or unknown to the individual), a feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger. It is an alerting signal that warns of impending danger and enables the individual to take measures to deal with threat. Related factors for Anxiety : Anesthesia Invasive/noninvasive procedure Interpersonal conflicts Anticipated/actual pain Loss of significant other Threat to self-concept