Nurse's Pocket Guide

APPENDIX 1
NANDA-I’s Taxonomy II
The 13 domains and their classes are:
Domain 1 Health Promotion: The awareness of well-being or
normality of function and the strategies used to maintain
control of and enhance that well-being or normality of
function
Class 1 Health Awareness: Recognition of normal
function and well-being
Class 2 Health Management: Identifying, controlling,
performing, and integrating activities to maintain
health and well-being
Domain 2 Nutrition: The activities of taking in, assimilating,
and using nutrients for the purposes of tissue maintenance,
tissue repair, and the production of energy
Class 1 Ingestion: Taking food or nutrients into the
body
Class 2 Digestion: The physical and chemical activities
that convert foodstuffs into substances suitable
for absorption and assimilation
Class 3 Absorption: The act of taking up nutrients
through body tissues
Class 4 Metabolism: The chemical and physical
processes occurring in living organisms and cells
for the development and use of protoplasm, production
of waste and energy, with the release of energy
for all vital processes
Class 5 Hydration: The taking in and absorption of
fluids and electrolytes
Domain 3 Elimination: Secretion and excretion of waste products
from the body
Class 1 Urinary Function: The process of secretion,
reabsorption, and excretion of urine
Class 2 Gastrointestinal Function: The process of
absorption and excretion of the end products of
digestion
Class 3 Integumentary Function: The process of
secretion and excretion through the skin
Class 4 Respiratory Function: The process of
exchange of gases and removal of the end products
of metabolism
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