title: Nursing diagnosis: a professional challenge for ET nursing.
abstract: ET nursing has an exciting and challenging opportunity to contribute to the advancement of nursing knowledge by the development of new nursing diagnoses and the revision of diagnoses already approved by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. This article discusses the significance of nursing diagnosis for nursing in general and ET nursing practice in particular. It also promotes exploration of the contribution ET nursing can offer through the common language of nursing diagnosis.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marculescu
mesh_terms: D004766:Enterostomy / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D013041:Specialties, Nursing