Nursing 204 - Exam 1 latest Edition 2024/2025 Guaranted Grade A+
What is Nursing?
-protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities.
-prevention of illness and injury
-advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and populations.
What is the Nursing Process?
Asse...
Nursing 204 - Exam 1 latest
Edition 2024/2025 Guaranted Grade
A+
What is Nursing?
-protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities.
-prevention of illness and injury
-advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and
populations.
What is the Nursing Process?
Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation, evaluation.
What is the nursing diagnosis?
Risk for or leading to. Nursing includes the family as well as the
patient.
What does it mean to assess?
establish the database - holistic health history, physical assessment,
review of the patient record and nursing literature, consultation of
the patient's support people, and healthcare professionals. always
make sure you're updating, validating and communicating the database.
what is a diagnosis?
first, interpret and analyzing the patient data. next, identify the
strengths and health problems. after, formulate and validate nursing
diagnoses and lastly prioritize list of nursing diagnosis.
outcome identification and planning
Here you write outcomes and develop an evaluative strategy. You would
want to select nursing interventions along with communicate the plan
of nursing care. This is the step where one's goal would be prevent,
reduce or resolve the problem.
implementation
This is the step where you carry out the plan of care. One would
still continue data collection, and modify the plan of care as needed.
The goal is to work towards the patient's desired outcome.
evaluation
Here, you measure how well the patient has achieved desired outcomes.
One would identify factors that contribute to the patient's success
or failure.
What is the type of problem solving we use in nursing and how does it
work?
, Scientific -- First you identify the problem, then you collect data.
After data is collected, one makes the hypothesis and their plan of
action. After, they make hypothesis testing and interpretation. In
conclusion, one evaluates followed by intuitive thinking (what you
feel or experienced).
Also, evidence based ***
What is critical thinking
Evaluating the problem and seeing how it applies; the thought process
before one takes action.
What are the critical thinking skills (17)
Identifying assumptions
Organized and comprehensive approach
Validation
Normal vs. abnormal
Making inferences
Clustering related cues
Relevant from irrelevant
recognizing inconsistencies
identifying patterns
missing information
promoting health
actual and potential risk problems (assessing data)
setting priorities
Patient centered expected outcomes
specific interventions
evaluating and corrective thinking
comprehensive plan
What are the three levels of priorities
First (urgent) - CPR/compressions
Second level (If urgent is done) - intervention to prevent further
issues (safety issues)
Third - (longer time to address) long term issues
What is evidence based data
(p6)
utilizing best evidence in combination with experience + experience +
values to decide about a diagnosis and treatment.
What are the three important things in critical thinking?**
theoretical and experiential knowledge, critical thinking and
character, intellectual and manual skills
What is the most important thing that nurses do
teaching - giving clients the tool to succeed.
what are some factors that effect a patient's learning abilities?
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