Introduction: Novelties and changes in nursing diagnoses have been going on since 1953, when this term was first used and is also regularly used today in nursing practice around the world. Nursing diagnosis is essential as it forms the basis for the choice of nursing interventions. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the history of nursing diagnoses in the world and in Slovenia. Methods: We used a descriptive research method of work with a foreign and home literature review. The search was conducted using CINAHL, ScienceDirect, Medline, BMC Nursing in SAGE journals with using the DiKul and COBISS search engines. The search was limited to articles published until 2021 and the quality was assessed according to the answers that were offered for the purpose of the thesis. Results: Nursing diagnoses appeared in the USA in 1973, while they appeared 20 years later in Slovenia and some other European countries. They identified a set of 37 nursing diagnoses at the first meeting of North – American association of nursing diagnoses. The establishment of NANDA in 1982 and journal with terminology and classification of nursing diagnoses played an important role in the development. After numerous meetings and held conferences the use of nursing diagnoses spread on international level and today Taxonomy II identifies 267 of them. Another important language is International Classification of Nursing Practices, a version of ICNP® Alpha that was first published as a draft in 1996. The Omaha system is a knowledge-based integrated classification consisting of a problem classification scheme, an intervention scheme and a problem assessment scale. Discussion: The reason for a later development of nursing diagnoses in our country may lie in the lack of knowledge or not including nursing diagnoses in the curriculum. Today, nursing diagnoses are quite used around the world. There are many factors that affect their implementation in the nursing process, such as: the workload of nurses, lack of knowledge about appropriate terminology. Conclusion: It is important to implement electronical documentation in the nursing process. That could ease the nursing care of a patient. It would also be useful to further explore this area and encourage the training of nurses regarding implementation of nursing diagnoses. In this way, we could increase the usage of nursing diagnoses and improve the quality of nursing care.
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