Research Article
Demir Doğan M
Abstract
Objective: Nursing diagnoses used to determine existing or potential health problems in professional nursing care. The aim of this study to determine the skill of second year students in defining nursing diagnoses. Methods: A scenario which contain 15 nursing diagnoses was prepared by the teachers and were given a student characteristics form and 2011 NANDA nursing diagnosis with scenario. Findings: Students mean age was 19.93 ± 1.18 and most of students were female (71.2%). The students were determined 13 out of the 15 nursing diagnoses. Conclusion: Students were successful in half identified the majority of nursing diagnoses. Assess what stage we are at identifying nursing diagnoses will contribute to the development of nursing education.