Abstract: Objective: To summarize the content of researches on accurate clinical indicators for nursing diagnoses at home and abroad, to provide reference for nurses to make nursing diagnoses as early and quickly as possible and further prompt the advancement and application of nursing diagnoses with Chinese characteristics. Methods: The Chinese and English databases were systematically searched from the establishment time to January 15, 2022, to extract relevant information and analyze relevant topics and research methods of researches on accurate clinical indicators for nursing diagnoses. Results: Finally 86 articles were included, which were mainly cross-sectional studies adopting content validation and clinical validation as the research methods. Nursing diagnoses related to respiratory diseases were shown to be the hotspot in the study of clinical indicators for nursing diagnoses. Conclusion: Researchers abroad have been quite into the study of accurate clinical indicators for nursing diagnoses involving various fields and categories, which can benefit nursing decision-making to some extent. However, few such researches are seen in China. Thus, it is suggested that more targeted researches on clinical indicators for nursing diagnoses be carried out to develop accurate indicators for nursing diagnoses in accordance with the specific clinical conditions in our country, so as to assist clinical nurses in making diagnoses decisions.

Key words: nursing diagnoses; accurate clinical indicator; scoping review