A number of persistent issues in the nursing diagnosis community have challenged the ability of one nursing diagnosis taxonomy to account for nursing's practice. The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) Taxonomy Committee, charged with the preparation of one taxonomy for all, has struggled with some of these issues and has initiated development of axes. The issues, figuratively speaking, become the axes. The axes are intended to describe the dimensions of the human condition. This article, third in a series of four, describes the process and development of the proposed axes.

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A trifocal model of nursing diagnosis: wellness reinforced.

As nurses have identified the phenomena of concern to nursing and developed diagnostic language, there has been a persistent omission of diagnostic labels that reflect health and a wellness orientation. The fact that the term "diagnosis" has been identified with problems and deficits has impeded work on wellness diagnoses. Further, lack of consensus regarding a definition of health further complicates work in this area. The authors propose a model that incorporates a category of "opportunity to enhance," in addition to the categories of "problem" and "high risk" to derive a trifocal model of nursing diagnoses. Examples from nursing practice are given.

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