NUR 311 Written Exam 1 Questions and Correct Answers
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Course
NUR 311
Institution
NUR 311
Nursing Process An organized, systematic method of giving individualized care that focuses on the unique human response to an actual or potential alteration in health. Its a set of deliberate activities that a nurse should perform in order to give the patient the best possible nursing care.
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NUR 311 Written Exam 1 Questions and
Correct Answers
Nursing Process ✅An organized, systematic method of giving individualized care that
focuses on the unique human response to an actual or potential alteration in health. Its
a set of deliberate activities that a nurse should perform in order to give the patient the
best possible nursing care.
A systematic approach that directs the nurse, in partnership with the patient, to:
-Promote health
-Prevent disease
-Restore health
-Facilitate coping with altered function
The nursing process is systematic, dynamic, interpersonal, and outcome-oriented
The nursing process is... ✅Systematic, Dynamic, Interpersonal, and Outcome Oriented
What are the 5 steps to the nursing process? ✅1. Assessment
2. Nursing Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation/Intervention
5. Evaluation
What is the purpose of the nursing process? ✅For the Profession
-Identifies the scope of nursing practice
-Significant portion of the standards of practice
For the Client
-Encourage patients to participate
-Promote continuity of care
-Promotes individualized care
For the Nurse
-Encourages innovation and creativity
-Saves times and energy
-Enhances professional growth
-Satisfaction gained from successes
-Enhancing professional and legal responsibilities
1) Assessment ✅An organized and systematic process of collecting data/info.
(subjective and objective). It's an ongoing process and the nurse is grouping the data,
and recording the data.
*collect, validate, and interpret data*
, 2) Diagnosis ✅P: Problem
E: Etiology
C: Characteristics
Identify how___ responds to a health problem, identify factors that contribute to health
problems, identify resources
Nursing diagnosis: a statement of client and health that nurses can treat independently
guides interventions and defining outcomes
human response to health problem
4) Intervention and Implementation ✅specifies nursing interventions
Intervention: The nurse will ____ how, why, when, and where
The goal is to reduce or eliminate the problem
Implementation: The process of putting the plan into action, always be reassessing
Do all of this with the patient and the family
What order should the nurse take care of diagnoses? ✅life threatening, patient
concern, nurse concern
Guidelines for writing Nursing Diagnoses ✅Don't state nursing diagnosis in medical
terms
Don't state nursing diagnosis as a nursing intervention
Don't be vague
Don't state two problems at the same time
Don't write diagnostic statement in a way that may be legally incriminating
Don't include value judgement
5) Evaluation ✅The determination of the degree of goal achievement experienced by
the patient and the effectiveness of the plan of care
Nurse and patient do this together
May then modify the care plan
*Evaluate the outcome criteria, not the intervention*
Resolves, continues, or modifies the plan
The patient may met the goal, partially meet the goal, or not at all
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