Nursing diagnosis statement builder
🎓 Educational study aid, NOT medical advice. Everything this tool writes is an unverified draft for your instructor to review.
Pick a problem, a cause and a piece of evidence, and the three-part statement writes itself. 30 diagnoses, 90 causes and 88 pieces of evidence, all taken from the same data as our worked care plans. The builder also enforces the rule that trips up most first care plans: a risk for diagnosis takes no AEB.
Educational study aid, not medical advice. Every statement is an unverified draft to check with your instructor and adapt to your patient. Do not enter real, identifiable patient information.
How do the three parts fit together?
A nursing diagnosis is not a medical diagnosis. A doctor names the disease; you name the human response to it and the proof that it is happening. That is why the statement has three parts and why each one answers a different question.
| Part | Question it answers | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Problem | What is the patient's response? | Impaired gas exchange |
| R/T (related to) | What is causing or contributing to it? | excess mucus production |
| AEB (as evidenced by) | How do you know it is real? | SpO₂ 88% on room air and crackles in both lower lobes |
Evidence after AEB has to be something another nurse could verify on the same shift: a number, an observation, or the patient's own words. A hunch is not evidence. If you want the full abbreviation reference, including R/T, ADPIE and the abbreviations you must never use in real charting, read what AEB means in nursing.
Where does this fit in the care plan?
The statement is step two of five. Assessment comes first and feeds the AEB half of your statement; goals, interventions and evaluation come after and all point back at the problem you named here. If you need the whole thing rather than one line, the care plan builder assembles all five steps for one of our worked conditions, and how to write a nursing diagnosis walks through the reasoning in prose.
Put this builder on your own site
Teach nursing students, run a study blog, or keep a resources page for your cohort? You can put this builder on your own page for free. Copy the snippet, paste it into your HTML, done. No sign-up, no tracking inside the widget, and it stays current because it loads from here.
Want the worked plans instead? The care plan library has the full ADPIE for every condition we cover, each with its sources listed.
Frequently asked questions
What are the three parts of a nursing diagnosis?
The problem (the NANDA-style label), the cause introduced by related to (R/T), and the evidence introduced by as evidenced by (AEB). Written out: Acute pain R/T surgical incision AEB patient rating pain 7/10 and guarding the abdomen.
Why does a "risk for" diagnosis have no AEB?
Because the problem has not happened yet, so there is nothing to evidence. You name risk factors instead. This builder hides the AEB step automatically for the 7 "risk for" diagnoses in the list, which is the single most common mistake in a first care plan.
Is a two-part statement ever correct?
Yes. "Risk for" diagnoses are written as two parts (problem plus risk factors), and some schools also accept two parts for wellness diagnoses. Follow your instructor's format, because it varies by program.
Can I use this on a real patient chart?
No. This is a study aid that produces an unverified draft. Have your instructor or a licensed clinician review anything before it goes near real care, and never type identifiable patient information into it.
Can I put this builder on my own site?
Yes, free, and you do not need to ask. Copy the snippet at the bottom of this page into your HTML. There is no sign-up and no tracking inside the widget.
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.