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NURS205 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100%CORRECT ANSWERS
all good nursing care.
starts with a good assesment
What is med-surg nursing?
- Care of the acutely ill
- Diverse patient populations
- Diverse practice settings
- Diverse scope of practice
what is the nursing process?
- scientific process
- what nurses do when planning + giving care
- Basic framework within which nurses apply the unique combination of knowledge,
skills and caring that constitutes the art & science of nursing
-not always formal
-avoid assumptions
stages of the nursing process
ADPIE
Assessment (subjective/objective)
Diagnosis
Planning (outcomes + interventions)
,Implementation
Evaluation
***ABC always priority
why is the nursing process important?
- aids in understanding what nurses do
-promotes individualised care: client-centred
-promotes continuity and coordination of care
Nursing theories define or describe nursing as:
• An art & science with it's own evolving scientific body of knowledge
• Holistic: looking as a whole at the patient
• Involves caring
• Occurs in a variety of settings
• Addresses health promotion, disease prevention, & care related to illness
**art = the interaction with others in a non-judgmental way
medicine vs. nursing
what are human responses?
Reactions to events or stressors such as disease or injury, or life changes
,Responses are actual or potential health problems:
• Biological
• Psychological
• Social
• Spiritual
Ex.chemotherapy
• Biological - nausea
• Psychological - fear
• Social - lonely
• Spiritual - distress, questioning existence
nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis, collaborative problems
Phase 1: assessment
Use data to:
Identify health problems
Plan nursing care
Evaluate patient outcomes
Critical thinkers.
, • Ensure that the assessment information is complete, accurate and factual before
making a diagnosis
• Eliminate their own biases & misconceptions of the data
• Refrain from jumping to erroneous conclusions about the data
Tips for verifying data
Ask patients additional questions
Always correlate subjective with objective
Correlate data with previous data
• Re-measure to ensure measurement is accurate
• Have another confirm findings
• Use references to interpret findings
Phase 2: Diagnosis
• Organize, group & analyze data to identify patient's current health status (actual &
potential health problems & strengths)
• Write an accurate statement of patient's current status & causal and contributing
factors
• Prioritize the diagnoses
• Identify which diagnoses will be treated by nursing & which will be referred to another
health care provider
What will the patients diagnosis tell you?
• What does the state of the patient's health is?
• What is contributing to/campaigning this state of health?
• A "nursing" diagnosis identifies and labels human responses to actual and potential
health problems
format for writing nursing diagnosis statment (PES)
• PROBLEM (P): brief statement of the patient's potential or actual health problem
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