1. Symptoms: It refers to the subjective feelings of the individual about the abnormal physical function and pathological changes, such as headache, fatigue, nausea, etc.
2. Signs: signs with diagnostic significance found by medical staff when examining patients.
3. Health assessment: it is a subject that evaluates the health status of the assessed object and puts forward the basic knowledge, skills and methods of nursing diagnosis according to its actual or potential health problems or life process.
4.？ Physical assessment: It is an important means to find out the assessment method of normal or abnormal physical signs through careful observation and systematic examination of the assessed through one's own feelings or with the help of stethoscope, sphygmomanometer and thermometer.
5. Subjective information: information obtained through interviews with the appraised person, including the main complaints of the appraised person, complaints from relatives and descriptions of the appraised person's health status obtained through questioning.
6. Objective data: the results about the health status of the assessed through visual touch, tapping or instrument inspection.
7. Chief complaint: the most important and obvious symptoms or signs felt by the assessed, their nature and duration.
8. Systematic review: By asking the assessed about the existence and characteristics of various systems or health function types and related symptoms, comprehensively and systematically assess the assessed's past health problems and their relationship with the health problems.
9. Nursing diagnosis: The clinical judgment on the response of individual families and communities to existing or potential health problems or life processes is the basis for nurses to choose nursing measures to achieve the expected results.