Quick Answer
NANDA-I 2024–2026 (13th edition) contains 267 nursing diagnoses across 13 domains. Every diagnosis follows the PES format: Problem (label) related to Etiology as evidenced by Signs/symptoms. Actual diagnoses use all three parts; risk diagnoses drop the 'AEB'. Prioritize by ABCs → Maslow physiological → safety → psychosocial → teaching. The full domain-grouped list is below — use CTRL+F to search.
How NANDA-I diagnoses are structured
Every NANDA-I nursing diagnosis has three parts (the PES format):
- P — Problem: the diagnostic label (e.g., "Impaired gas exchange").
- E — Etiology: the related factor ("related to alveolar-capillary membrane changes").
- S — Signs/symptoms: defining characteristics ("as evidenced by SpO₂ 88%, crackles bilaterally").
Actual diagnoses use all three parts. Risk diagnoses drop the "as evidenced by" — you cannot have evidence of a problem that has not happened yet.
The four types of nursing diagnoses
- Problem-focused (actual): a current human response — "Acute pain related to surgical incision AEB pain rating 8/10."
- Risk: vulnerability without evidence yet — "Risk for infection related to invasive line."
- Health-promotion: motivation to improve — "Readiness for enhanced knowledge."
- Syndrome: cluster of diagnoses occurring together — "Post-trauma syndrome."
Complete NANDA-I diagnosis list (2024–2026) by domain
Grouped by NANDA-I's 13 domains. Use CTRL+F to search this page.
1. Health Promotion
- Deficient diversional activity
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Frail elderly syndrome
- Ineffective health maintenance behaviors
- Ineffective health self-management
- Readiness for enhanced health self-management
- Ineffective family health self-management
- Nonadherence
- Ineffective protection
2. Nutrition
- Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements
- Imbalanced nutrition: more than body requirements
- Overweight
- Obesity
- Ineffective infant feeding dynamics
- Ineffective breastfeeding
- Interrupted breastfeeding
- Readiness for enhanced breastfeeding
- Impaired swallowing
- Risk for aspiration
- Deficient fluid volume
- Excess fluid volume
- Risk for electrolyte imbalance
- Risk for unstable blood glucose level
- Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
- Risk for impaired liver function
3. Elimination and Exchange
- Impaired urinary elimination
- Functional urinary incontinence
- Overflow urinary incontinence
- Reflex urinary incontinence
- Stress urinary incontinence
- Urge urinary incontinence
- Urinary retention
- Constipation
- Perceived constipation
- Chronic functional constipation
- Diarrhea
- Bowel incontinence
- Dysfunctional gastrointestinal motility
- Impaired gas exchange
4. Activity / Rest
- Insomnia
- Sleep deprivation
- Readiness for enhanced sleep
- Disturbed sleep pattern
- Impaired physical mobility
- Impaired bed mobility
- Impaired wheelchair mobility
- Impaired sitting
- Impaired standing
- Impaired transfer ability
- Impaired walking
- Fatigue
- Activity intolerance
- Risk for activity intolerance
- Ineffective breathing pattern
- Decreased cardiac output
- Risk for decreased cardiac tissue perfusion
- Ineffective peripheral tissue perfusion
- Impaired spontaneous ventilation
- Dysfunctional ventilatory weaning response
- Deficient self-care (bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting)
5. Perception / Cognition
- Unilateral neglect
- Acute confusion
- Chronic confusion
- Impaired memory
- Deficient knowledge
- Readiness for enhanced knowledge
- Impaired verbal communication
- Readiness for enhanced communication
6. Self-Perception
- Hopelessness
- Powerlessness
- Chronic low self-esteem
- Situational low self-esteem
- Disturbed body image
- Disturbed personal identity
7. Role Relationships
- Caregiver role strain
- Impaired parenting
- Interrupted family processes
- Ineffective role performance
- Impaired social interaction
- Parental role conflict
8. Sexuality
- Sexual dysfunction
- Ineffective sexuality pattern
- Ineffective childbearing process
- Risk for disturbed maternal-fetal dyad
9. Coping / Stress Tolerance
- Anxiety
- Death anxiety
- Fear
- Grieving
- Complicated grieving
- Ineffective coping
- Compromised family coping
- Disabled family coping
- Defensive coping
- Post-trauma syndrome
- Rape-trauma syndrome
- Relocation stress syndrome
- Chronic sorrow
- Stress overload
- Autonomic dysreflexia
- Decreased intracranial adaptive capacity
10. Life Principles
- Readiness for enhanced spiritual well-being
- Spiritual distress
- Moral distress
- Decisional conflict
- Impaired religiosity
11. Safety / Protection
- Risk for infection
- Risk for surgical site infection
- Ineffective airway clearance
- Risk for aspiration
- Risk for bleeding
- Risk for dry eye / dry mouth
- Risk for falls
- Risk for injury
- Risk for corneal injury
- Risk for perioperative positioning injury
- Risk for thermal injury
- Impaired dentition
- Impaired oral mucous membrane integrity
- Impaired skin integrity
- Impaired tissue integrity
- Impaired pressure ulcer
- Risk for pressure ulcer
- Latex allergy reaction
- Risk for allergy reaction
- Risk for suicide
- Risk for self-directed violence
- Risk for other-directed violence
- Self-mutilation
- Ineffective thermoregulation
- Hyperthermia
- Hypothermia
- Risk for perioperative hypothermia
12. Comfort
- Acute pain
- Chronic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Labor pain
- Nausea
- Impaired comfort
- Readiness for enhanced comfort
- Social isolation
13. Growth / Development
- Risk for delayed child development
- Risk for disproportionate growth
- Delayed infant motor development
How to pick the right diagnosis
- Cluster your assessment data by system and by pattern.
- Match the cluster to a NANDA-I label whose defining characteristics your data satisfies.
- Identify the related factor — the "why" you can nurse against.
- Write the PES statement. Prioritize using ABCs → Maslow → safety → teaching.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sources & Further Reading
- Herdman, T. H., Kamitsuru, S., & Lopes, C. T.. NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions & Classification 2024–2026 (13th ed.). Thieme; 2024.
- Butcher, H. K., Bulechek, G. M., Dochterman, J. M., & Wagner, C. M.. Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) (8th ed.). Elsevier; 2023.
- Moorhead, S., Swanson, E., Johnson, M., & Maas, M. L.. Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) (7th ed.). Elsevier; 2023.