Anxiety: Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan
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Definition: Worry, tension, and physical arousal out of proportion to the situation, triggered by something the patient experiences as threatening.
What is the Anxiety nursing diagnosis related to?
- Health crisis or diagnosis
- Unfamiliar environment
- Threat to role or safety
What is Anxiety evidenced by?
- Reports of worry, tension, apprehension
- Restlessness, increased heart rate
- Difficulty concentrating
What are sample goals for the Anxiety nursing diagnosis?
- Patient reports reduced anxiety and uses one coping strategy by end of shift.
Which nursing interventions go with the Anxiety diagnosis?
- Provide calm, honest reassurance and information
- Teach relaxation and breathing techniques
- Encourage support and address specific fears
Where do these Anxiety recommendations come from?
The wording above is our own, written from widely taught nursing fundamentals; it is not copied from NANDA-I. For background on the underlying health problem, these public sources were read on October 21, 2026:
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What is the Anxiety nursing diagnosis?
Worry, tension, and physical arousal out of proportion to the situation, triggered by something the patient experiences as threatening.
What are the related factors for Anxiety?
Common related factors: Health crisis or diagnosis; Unfamiliar environment; Threat to role or safety. In your care plan, write it as "Anxiety related to [factor] as evidenced by [your patient's data]."
What are nursing interventions for Anxiety?
Key interventions: Provide calm, honest reassurance and information; Teach relaxation and breathing techniques; Encourage support and address specific fears, each with a rationale in your plan.
For nursing education only, NOT medical advice and not a clinical decision-making tool. Nothing here should be used to assess, diagnose, or treat any real patient. Care plans and answers are unverified study drafts to review with your instructor or a licensed clinician and adapt to the individual patient and your institution’s protocols before any use.
Educational content in standard clinical language; not medical advice and not affiliated with NANDA-I/NIC/NOC.