Selected Nursing Diagnoses by Medical Diagnosis (R)

Radiation therapy

■ Acute pain

■ Deficient fluid volume

■ Diarrhea

■ Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements

■ Impaired oral mucous membrane

■ Impaired physical mobility

■ Impaired tissue integrity

■ Nausea

■ Sexual dysfunction

Rape

■ Anxiety

■ Chronic sorrow

■ Complicated grieving

■ Fear

■ Moral distress

■ Posttrauma syndrome

■ Rape-trauma syndrome

■ Risk for compromised human dignity

■ Situational low self-esteem
■ Social isolation

Raynaud’s disease

■ Deficient knowledge(specify)

■ Disturbed sensory perception(tactile)

■ Impaired tissue integrity

■ Ineffective tissue perfusion(peripheral)

■ Risk for impaired skin integrity

Renal calculi

■ Acute pain

■ Ineffective denial

■ Risk for infection

■ Urinary retention

Renal cancer

■ Acute pain

■ Deficient fluid volume

Renal disease: End-stage 
■ Caregiver role strain

■ Chronic low self-esteem

■ Decisional conflict

■ Defensive coping

■ Excess fluid volume

■ Grieving

■ Hopelessness

■ Ineffective coping

■ Ineffective denial

■ Ineffective role performance

■ Ineffective sexuality patterns
■ Risk for caregiver role strain

■ Risk for disuse syndrome

■ Risk for infection

■ Risk for poisoning

■ Risk for spiritual distress
■ Spiritual distress

Respiratory distress syndrome

■ Impaired gas exchange

■ Ineffective airway clearance

■ Ineffective breathing pattern
■ Ineffective thermoregulation
■ Risk for infection

Reye’s syndrome

■ Decreased intracranial adaptive capacity

■ Delayed growth and development

■ Impaired physical mobility

■ Ineffective thermoregulation

Rheumatic fever

■ Acute pain

■ Anxiety

■ Decreased cardiac output

■ Deficient knowledge (specify)

■ Fatigue

■ Hyperthermia

■ Impaired gas exchange

■ Impaired physical mobility

■ Ineffective breathing pattern
■ Risk for infection

Rheumatoid arthritis

■ Activity intolerance

■ Acute pain
Deficient knowledge (specify) 
Disturbed body image 
Dressing or grooming selfcare deficit

■ Impaired physical mobility

■ Ineffective coping

■ Ineffective denial

■ Ineffective health maintenance

■ Ineffective protection

■ Insomnia

■ Risk for disuse syndrome

■ Risk for falls

■ Risk for injury

■ Sexual dysfunction