Pa Up End Pa on 7 8 Pa up shi Discussion Question - In your own words, discuss the difference between a medical and nursing diagnosis. Provide an example of each.

Medical diagnosis is cause focused, while a nursing diagnosis is care focused.

Medical diagnosis focus particularly on the illness while nursing diagnosis on the other hand, focuses on the patient and his physiological and psychological responses.

Doctors who carry out medical diagnosis come up with such analysis that would treat the medical problem, while nursing diagnosis, is focused on the care for

the patient behind that illness.

Medical diagnosis deals with disease or medical condition whereas nursing diagnosis deals with human response to actual or potential health problems and life processes.

As an illustration, the medical diagnosis of Cerebrovascular Attack (CVA or Stroke) provides information about the patient's pathology. The complimentary nursing diagnoses of Impaired verbal communication, risk for falls, interrupted family processes and powerlessness provides a complete understanding of the impact of that stroke on this particular patient and his family - they also direct nursing interventions to obtain patient-specific outcomes.