Nurse's Pocket Guide

death ANXIETY
IMPLEMENTATION/EVALUATION
• Client involvement and response to interventions/teaching
and actions performed.
• Attainment/progress toward desired outcome(s).
• Modifications to plan of care.
DISCHARGE PLANNING
• Referrals and follow-up plan.
• Specific referrals made.
SAMPLE NURSING OUTCOMES & INTERVENTIONS
CLASSIFICATIONS (NOC/NIC)
NOC—Anxiety Control
NIC—Anxiety Reduction
death Anxiety
Taxonomy II: Coping/Stress Tolerance—Class 2 Coping
Response (00147)
[Diagnostic Division: Ego Integrity]
Submitted 1998; Revised 2006
Definition: Vague uneasy feeling of discomfort or dread
generated by perceptions of a real or imagined threat to
one’s existence
Related Factors
Anticipating: pain; suffering; adverse consequences of general
anesthesia; impact of death on others
Confronting reality of terminal disease; experiencing dying
process; perceived proximity of death
Discussions on topic of death; observations related to death;
near death experience
Uncertainty of prognosis; nonacceptance of own mortality
Uncertainty about: the existence of a higher power; life after
death; an encounter with a higher power
Defining Characteristics
SUBJECTIVE
Fear of: developing a terminal illness; the process of dying;
pain/suffering related to dying; loss of mental [/physical]
abilities when dying; premature death; prolonged dying
Information in brackets added by the authors to clarify and enhance
the use of nursing diagnoses.
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