Figure 1.

ISO Reference terminology model for nursing diagnoses. Focus = area of attention; Dimension = quality possessed by an “individual” or “group,” e.g., knowledge, motivation, ability; Judgment = opinion or discernment related to a focus or dimension; Degree = scale of gradations, e.g., very, mild, extreme; Potentiality = possibility, e.g., risk for, actual, possibility of, potential; Acuity = duration, e.g., acute, chronic; Timing = a point or period in time, e.g., during a procedure, perinatal, postoperative; Site = physical structure that further specifies the position of a focus or a target; Subject of Information = entity to which a diagnosis refers.