title: Axes: focus of taxonomy II.
abstract: A number of persistent issues in the nursing diagnosis community have challenged the ability of one nursing diagnosis taxonomy to account for nursing's practice. The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) Taxonomy Committee, charged with the preparation of one taxonomy for all, has struggled with some of these issues and has initiated development of axes. The issues, figuratively speaking, become the axes. The axes are intended to describe the dimensions of the human condition. This article, third in a series of four, describes the process and development of the proposed axes.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Hoskins
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Fitzpatrick
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Warren
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Avant
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Carpenito
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Hurley
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jakob
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lunney
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Mills
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002965:Classification; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000379:methods*