[Psychosocial nursing diagnosis: an interpretative-phenomenological perspective]

Nursing diagnoses and other nomenclatures of this kind belong to the category of technological knowledge, developed for the sake of domination (Scheler 1974-1928). Nomenclatures can be used as base for the recording of nursing services. However, the body of knowledge represented by nursing diagnoses cannot serve the profession as a foundation for clinical decision making nor as inspiration for professional conversations with patients. Selected psycho-social nursing diagnoses are critiqued by comparing them with the description of a patient's illness experiences.