| Behaviors | NANDA Nursing Diagnoses |
|---|
| Aggression; hostility | Risk for injury; Risk for other-directed violence |
| Anorexia or refusal to eat | Imbalanced nutrition: Less than body requirements |
| Anxious behavior | Anxiety (specify level) |
| Confusion; memory loss | Confusion, acute/chronic; Disturbed thought processes |
| Delusions | Disturbed thought processes |
| Denial of problems | Ineffective denial |
| Depressed mood or anger turned inward | Dysfunctional grieving |
| Detoxification; withdrawal from substances | Risk for injury |
| Difficulty making important life decision | Decisional conflict (specify) |
| Difficulty with interpersonal relationships | Impaired social interaction |
| Disruption in capability to perform usual responsibilities | Ineffective role performance |
| Dissociative behaviors (depersonalization; derealization) | Disturbed sensory perception (kinesthetic) |
| Expresses feelings of disgust about body or body part | Disturbed body image |
| Expresses lack of control over personal situation | Powerlessness |
| Flashbacks, nightmares, obsession with traumatic experience | Posttrauma syndrome |
| Hallucinations | Disturbed sensory perception (auditory; visual) |
| Highly critical of self or others | Low self-esteem (chronic; situational) |
| HIV-positive; altered immunity | Ineffective protection |
| Inability to meet basic needs | Self-care deficit (feeding; bathing/hygiene; dressing/grooming; toileting) |
| Insomnia or hypersomnia | Disturbed sleep pattern |
| Loose associations or flight of ideas | Impaired verbal communication |
| Manic hyperactivity | Risk for injury |
| Manipulative behavior | Ineffective coping |
| Multiple personalities; gender identity disturbance | Disturbed personal identity |
| Orgasm, problems with; lack of sexual desire | Sexual dysfunction |
| Overeating, compulsive | Risk for imbalanced nutrition: More than body requirements |
| Phobias | Fear |
| Physical symptoms as coping behavior | Ineffective coping |
| Projection of blame; rationalization of failures; denial of personal responsibility | Defensive coping |
| Ritualistic behaviors | Anxiety (severe); Ineffective coping |
| Seductive remarks; inappropriate sexual behaviors | Impaired social interaction |
| Self-mutilative behaviors | Self-mutilation; Risk for self-mutilation |
| Sexual behaviors (difficulty, limitations, or changes in; reported dissatisfaction) | Ineffective sexuality patterns |
| Stress from caring for chronically ill person | Caregiver role strain |
| Stress from locating to new environment | Relocation stress syndrome |
| Substance use as a coping behavior | Ineffective coping |
| Substance use (denies use is a problem) | Ineffective denial |
| Suicidal | Risk for suicide; Risk for self-directed violence |
| Suspiciousness | Disturbed thought processes; Ineffective coping |
| Vomiting, excessive, self-induced | Risk for deficient fluid volume |
| Withdrawn behavior | Social isolation |