Environmental nursing diagnoses: a proposal for further development of Taxonomy II.
OBJECTIVE
To propose further development of environmental diagnoses and to offer recommendations for expanding Taxonomy II to include more diagnostic labels that encompass the environmental domain.


METHODS
Literature in the disciplines of nursing, biology, toxicology, public health, sociology, and anthropology.


RESULTS
Nurses need language to describe the human responses of individuals, families, communities, and global society to environmental health threats.


CONCLUSIONS
New environmental diagnoses will lead to refinement of language that describes the contribution of nursing to an emerging international and community health priority.


CONCLUSIONS
Environmental diagnostic labels will allow nurses to name responses and plan interventions that respond to instances or risks of exposure to threats from the physical and sociocultural environment.
Howard University College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Health Sciences, Division of Nursing, Washington, DC, USA. pgreen@howard.edu
Pauline M
PM
Green
Laura V
LV
Polk
Diann S
DS
Slade
D004782:Environmental Health; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled