An analytic study was carried out on 68 cases of cerebral function disorders which were hospitalized at ICU of Dong San Medical Center, Keimyung University, Taegu, Korea from March, 1993 to september, 1994.
The instrument used in this study was NANDA Taxonomy I revised.
The following results were obtained.
The total 310 of nursing diagnoses were confirmed among 68 patients.
The percentage order of diagnoses are 'Airway clearance, ineffective', 'Skin integrity, impaired, potential', 'Mobility, impaired physical', 'Infection, potential for' and 'Skin integrity, impaired'.
In the classificaton according to 9 human response patterns, the nursing diagnoses to exchanging was 68%, moving 16.8%, communicating 4.2%, perceiving 1.9%, choosing 1.6%, relating 1.0%.
The most frequent relating factors of the each nursing diagnosis are tracheobronchial secretion (34/51, 66.6%) in ineffective airway clearance, physical immobilization(26/33, 78.8%) in impaired skin integrity, potential, neuromuscular
impairment(15/31,
48.4%) in impaired physical mobility, and invasive procedures(10/22, 45.5%) in potential for infection.
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