Validating a diagnostic label. Knowledge deficits.
It is essential to establish some clinical validity for the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnoses proposed to date. The application of one type of descriptive study to the nursing diagnosis of knowledge deficit is presented. Limited clinical support is provided for some defining characteristics, but no critical indicator is identified.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001519:Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009736:Nursing Process; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010358:Patient Participation; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*