Chapter 18 Flashcards
Planning
(in five step nursing process) a category of nursing behavior in which a strategy is designed to achieve the goals of care for an individual patient, as established in assessing and analyzing. Planning includes developing and modifying a care plan for the patient, cooperating with other personnel, and recording relevant information.
Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)
A comprehensive, standardized system to classify outcomes of nursing interventions. It is a clinical tool developed by a research team at the University of Iowa that describes and defines the knowledge base for nursing curricula and practice. At present, NOC includes 385 nursing outcomes for use for individual patients or individual family caregivers in the home.
Outcome
The condition of a patient at the end of therapy or a disease process, including the need for continuing care, medication, counseling, or education.
Nurse-Sensitive Outcomes
Outcomes that are within the scope of nursing practice; consequences or effects of nursing interventions that result in changes in the patient’s symptoms, functional status, safety, psychological distress, or costs.
Interprofessional Collaboration
Working agreement in which each home health care provider carefully analyzes his or her role in determining the best plan for the client’s care.
Independent Nursing Interventions
Nurse-prescribed actions used in both nursing diagnosis and collaboratively addressed problems. See also delegated nursing interventions.
Scientific Rationale
A reason, based on supporting scientific evidence, that a particular action is chosen.
Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)
A comprehensive, standardized system to classify treatments performed by nurses. It is a clinical tool developed by a research team at the University of Iowa that describes and defines the knowledge base for nursing curricula and practice. There are at present 542 nursing interventions that describe the treatments nurses perform. Each intervention has been labeled, defined, and given a list of appropriate activities. The full range of activities that nurses perform on behalf of patients are included, both independent and collaborative interventions, and both direct and indirect care. A taxonomy is provided to help the nurse find what is most relevant to her or his practice area. NIC interventions have been linked to NANDA diagnoses. It is considered part of the clinical decision making pf the nurse to decide and document the nursing diagnosis, desired outcomes, interventions used, and outcomes achieved. The NIC system provides a standardized language to document interventions.
Consultation
A nursing intervention from the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) using expert knowledge to work with those who seek help in problem solving to enable individuals, families, groups, or agencies to achieve identified goals.
