title: Impaired personal boundaries: a proposed nursing diagnosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  How impaired personal boundaries play a significant role in mental illnesses and co-dependency.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To demonstrate the value of having a formal nursing diagnosis of "impaired personal boundaries."
  
  
  METHODS
  A concept analysis of personal boundaries, which describes the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of personal boundaries.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The author recommends a new nursing diagnosis of "impaired personal boundaries," which provides a basis for the plan of care for clients with this difficulty.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hoover
mesh_terms: D001242:Assertiveness; D017004:Codependency, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D009736:Nursing Process; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D012649:Self Concept