NANDA International Nursing Diagnosis Submission Full Review Process

Full Review Process

Submissions for new nursing diagnoses (and some diagnosis revision submissions) go through the Full Review Process, which includes the following steps:

1.	Review of submission by the primary Diagnosis Development Committee (DDC) reviewer.
2.	Primary DDC reviewer works with submitter to address needed changes that need to be made.
3.	Submission is forwarded to full DDC for review.
4.	DDC recommends one of the following:

a.	Approve with no recommendations
b.	Approve pending follow-through with recommendations (most frequent DDC decision)
c.	Disapprove

5.	The primary DDC reviewer forwards the DDC recommendations to the submitter and works with the submitter to make the recommended changes.
6.	Submissions approved by the DDC are presented for NANDA-I member comment and voting through the Online Voting System. Recommendations from this process are reviewed with the submitter by the DDC.
7.	The submission is then forwarded to the NANDA International Board of Directors for final approval. Diagnoses accepted at the 2.1 level of development will be incorporated into both the NANDA-I Taxonomy II and the NNN Taxonomy of Nursing Practice, and published in the next edition of NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions & Classification.
8.	Approval of the proposed revision is posted on the NANDA-I website.

Diagnosis Submission Quick Links
Preparing Your Submission
Submission Review
Submissions Pending
Taxonomy Updates
Taxonomy Updates – Members Only

Resource Quick Links
Diagnosis Submission Form
Expedited Review Process
Nursing Diagnosis Glossary of Terms
Nursing Diagnosis Level of Evidence Criteria