Nanda Nursing Diagnosis

NURSING DIAGNOSIS: Ineffective individual coping related to: depression, fear, anxiety, and ongoing grieving associated with the diagnosis of AIDS and poor prognosis; need for permanent change in lifestyle associated with impaired immune system functioning and potential for disease transmission to others; uncertainty of disease course and feelings of powerlessness over course of disease; need for disclosure of diagnosis with possibility of subsequent rejection and/or distancing by others and loss of employment and health benefits; guilt associated with past behavior (if it was a factor in contracting HIV) and/or possibility of having transmitted HIV to others; lack of personal resources to deal with disability and premature death associated with youth (a significant number of clients are in their twenties or thirties and are not developmentally prepared to acknowledge and cope with disability and their own mortality); multiple losses (e.g. death of close friends with AIDS; loss of norm...