Normally, a nurse is justified in independently identifying and documenting a bowel Incontinence as a diagnosis related to an impaired elimination.
What is a bowel Incontinence?
It is also called a Fecal incontinence. it means a patient's inability to control bowel movements thereby causing the stool (feces) to leak unexpectedly from the rectum.
This incontinence is a NANDA-I-approved nursing diagnosis under the domain of Elimination. Factors such as ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome and small bowel obstruction are medical diagnoses but a bowel Incontinence is different.
Hence, the nurse is justified in independently identifying and documenting a bowel Incontinence as a diagnosis related to an impaired elimination.
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