title: Hypothermia: one nursing diagnosis or three?
abstract: The nursing diagnosis of hypothermia has been described by various authors as having multiple defining characteristics. A major problem identified was a lack of consistency on an exact temperature value for this nursing diagnosis. A review of the literature on hypothermia showed three distinct types of hypothermia: inadvertent, accidental, and intentional. Each of these types were distinguished by etiologies and defining characteristics and are presented using the hypothetic model case approach.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Summers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000145:classification / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis