Nursing diagnosis is defined as a clinical assessment of responses of individuals, families or communities to actual or potential health problems or life processes which provides the basis for selection of nursing interventions to achieve results that nurses are responsible.
Accurate and valid nursing diagnoses guide the selection of interventions that are likely to produce the desired therapeutic effects and determine nurse-sensitive outcome. Nursing diagnosis is viewed as key to the future of evidence-based nursing care professional who led - and to more effectively meet the needs of patients and ensure patient safety. In an era of increasing electronic patient health records standards of nursing terms such as NANDA, NIC and NOC nursing provides a means of collecting data that are systematically analyzed within and across healthcare organizations and provide essential data for cost / benefit analysis and clinical audit.