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Unit 8 Flashcards

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Goals of outcome identification and planning step?

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  1. Establish priorities
  2. Identify and write expected patient outcomes.
  3. Select evidence-based nursing interventions
  4. Communicate the plan of care
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A Formal Plan of Care Allows the Nurse to:

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  1. Individualize care
  2. Set priorities
  3. Facilitate communication among nursing personnel
  4. Promote continuity of high-quality, cost-effective care
    Coordinate care
  5. Evaluate patient response to nursing care
  6. Create a record used for evaluation, research, reimbursement, and legal reasons
  7. Promote nurse’s professional development
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Three Elements of Comprehensive Planning

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  1. Initial
  2. Ongoing
  3. Discharge
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Comprehensive Planning: Initial

When does initial planning begin?

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On admission after history and PE

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Comprehensive Planning: Ongoing

Who does it and what is done?

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  1. Completed by the nurse that care for client
  2. Review current diagnoses
  3. Identify new diagnoses
  4. Adjust and develop new outcomes
  5. Adjust and develop new interventions
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Comprehensive Planning: Discharge

When does it begin and what is the main focus?

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  1. Acute care begins on admission

2. Focuses on teaching and planning to allow client and family to carry out health and self care activities

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Establishing Priorities

What questions should you ask yourself?

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  1. What problems need immediate attention and which ones can wait?
  2. Which problems are your responsibility and which do you need to refer to someone else?
  3. Have changes in the patient’s health status influenced the priority of nursing diagnoses?
  4. Which problems can be dealt with by using standard plans (e.g., critical paths, standards of care)?
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Prioritizing Nursing Diagnoses: Maslow

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  • Arrange diagnoses according to basic human need
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Maslow: High Priority

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High Priority : Greatest threat to clients well-being

  1. Life threatening situations
  2. Immediate attention (tests, discharge)
  3. Something important to the client ( pain management)
  4. Priorities change
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Maslow: Medium Priority

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  • Problems that might result in unhealthy consequences but are not life-threatening
  • Examples
    1. Stress Incontinence
    2. Fatigue
    3. Dysfunctional Grieving
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Maslow: Low Priority

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  • Problems that can be resolved easily with minimal intervention
  • Not related to current health problem
  • Problems that have little potential to cause significant dysfunction

Ex. Washing a client’s hair to promote self-esteem

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What should be considered when Establishing Priorities?

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  1. Patient Preferences
  2. Anticipation of Future Problems
    If this goal is not met what are the consequences
    Patient does not do ROM will develop contractures
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Outcome Identification

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  • Establish client expected outcomes (Goals or objectives)
  • The desired results you expect from your interventions
  • It is an Educated guess – Broad Statement
  • It Reflects the nursing Problem – reverse statement
  • It Describes the end point of nursing care – this is what you evaluate
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Long term goal

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Resolved over a longer period of time a month or lifetime, chronic illness, home care

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Short term goal

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Steps towards long term goal accomplished in less than a week - hospital based goal- what client will achieve by discharge

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Consideration when selecting outcomes

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Type of health concern – 
- Nursing or medical diagnosis - overall prognosis
- Patient characteristics
 	G & D . Culture, values
- Available resources
- Patient preferences 
- Treatment potential 
****Patient and family must be involved
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What are the Categories of Outcomes?

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  1. Cognitive: describes increases in patient knowledge or intellectual behaviors
  2. Psychomotor: describes patient’s achievement of new skills
  3. Affective: describes changes in patient values, beliefs, and attitudes
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Writing Measurable Outcomes: The Should

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  1. Specific, Measurable, realistic, attainable, time bound
  2. The who , what, what circumstances, how well, and when
    Subject : Who is expected to achieve goal always begins client will
    Verb: what actions must the person do
    Under what conditions
    Criteria : How well with the client perform
    Within a specific time frame
  3. Must be measurable, & realistic
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Client Outcome

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  1. Contains a verb and qualifier to describe the level of performance client must achieve
  2. Accurately demonstrates dressing change before discharge
  3. Will move independently in bed before discharge
  4. Will remain free of infection during hospitalization
    Example: Client will be tobacco free
    for 60 days
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Outcome goal & criteria

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Goal:
Client will move independently by discharge

Outcome criteria :
      as measured by 
e.x client moves from side to side with minimal assistance in two hours after  
             returning from    
See  Box 13-3  283
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Identifying Nursing Interventions p 265

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  1. “Any treatment based upon clinical judgment and knowledge that a nurse performs to enhance patient/client outcomes”
  2. Actions performed by the nurse
    3.Derived from nursing diagnosis –
    cause of problem (etiology) determines the interventions
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List and Describe the Types of Nursing Interventions?

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  1. Direct Care Intervention -
    Intervention with direct interaction with patient
    Include Physiological and psychosocial interactions
  2. Indirect care Intervention -
    Interventions performed on behalf of the patient
    Management of care. Collaborating with other team members
    Support direct care
  3. Community Intervention -
    Those aimed at individuals, family, and community
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List Focus of Nursing Interventions?

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  1. Actual Diagnosis
  2. Risk Diagnosis
  3. Collaborative
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Actual Diagnoses

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  • Reduce or eliminate contributing factors of the diagnosis,
  • Promote higher level wellness
  • Monitor and evaluate status
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Risk Diagnoses

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  • Reduce or eliminate risk factors
  • Prevent the problem
  • Monitor and evaluate the problem
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Collaborative Diagnoses/Intervention

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  • Monitor for changes in status
  • Manage changes in status with nursing prescribed and physician prescribed interventions
  • Evaluate response
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Types of Nursing Interventions

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  1. Nurse-initiated: actions performed by a nurse without a physician’s order
  2. Physician-initiated: actions initiated by a physician in response to a medical diagnosis but carried out by a nurse under doctor’s orders
  3. Collaborative: treatments initiated by other providers and carried out by a nurse
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Actions Performed in Nurse-Initiated Interventions (Alfaro, 2002)

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Do not need MD orders

  • Monitor health status.
  • Reduce risks.
  • Resolve, prevent, or manage a problem.
  • Facilitate independence or assist with ADLs.
  • Promote optimum sense of physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being.
  • Give patient what he needs to make informed decisions
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Types of Nursing Interventions

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1.Psychomotor: positioning, ambulating
2.Psychosocial: support, encourage
3.Educational
4.Maintenance: skin care, hygiene, ADL’s
5.Surveillance: assessing; detect b/p change
6.Supervisory: supervise other healthcare
providers, family members
7.Sociocultural – spending time, include cultural food in diet

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Recording Nursing Interventions

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Well written interventions
Assist the patient to meet specific outcomes
Clearly and concisely describe the nursing action to performed

**Who? – Subject : Nurse implied
**Action verb: tells the nurse what to do
**Descriptive qualifiers:
how, when and where to perform the action
**Specific Times

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Factors to consider when choosing interventions

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  1. Desired patient outcomes
  2. Characteristics of the diagnoses
  3. Research base for interventions
  4. Feasibility for doing the intervention
  5. Acceptability to the client
  6. Capability of the nurse
  7. Also Box 13-4
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Planning Process: Purposes

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  • Direct client care activities
  • Promote continuity of care
  • Focus for charting requirements
  • Allow for delegation of specific activities
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Activities involved in the planning phase

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  • Planning nursing interventions

- Writing the nursing plan of care

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Writing a Nursing Plan of Care

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  1. Plan of care/ Nursing Care Plan is nursing centered
  2. It is a step-by-step process as evidenced by:
    Sufficient data to substantiate diagnoses
    At least one goal for each nursing diagnosis
    Outcome criteria identified for each goal
    Nursing intervention(s) to meet each goal
    Each intervention supported by rationale
    Evaluation addresses whether goal met and how goal was met
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Types of Clinical Client Plans of Care 292

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  1. Individual plan of care
  2. standardized (p 295)
  3. Generic plan of care
  4. Computer generated POC
  5. Multidisciplinary (Collaborative) Care plan (p 295)
  6. Instructional Care plans
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Individual Plan of Care is written by ____ for ____ client.

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RN/individual

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Standardized Plan of Care

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  • written for a group of patients with a common medical diagnosis
  • Identify common nursing diagnoses for specific population
  • Must be individualized
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Generic Plan of care is written for a ___ ___ ___.

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***specific nursing diagnosis

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Computer generated POC

  1. Care plan generated when;
  2. Similar to;
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  1. Care plan generated when assessment data is entered

2. Similar to standardized or generic plans

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Multidisciplinary (Collaborative) Care Plan 295

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Critical Pathways, CareMaps

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Instructional Care Plans

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  1. Student Care Plan 296
    • Scientific Rationales included
  2. Concept Maps 292
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Purposes of Implementation

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  1. Help the patient achieve valued health outcomes.
  2. Promote health.
  3. Prevent disease and illness.
  4. Restore health.
  5. Facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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Two Nursing implementations

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  1. Direct
    - “Hands on” nurse provides physiological or psychological care
  2. Indirect:
    • supervise or manage the environment or interdisciplinary collaboration – support direct nursing care
      “Nurse away from the patient”
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Activities of Implementation

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  1. Reassess with each client encounter
  2. Set priorities when changed
  3. Perform nursing interventions
  4. Record Nursing action

ASSESS, REASSESS, REVISE, RECORD

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Implementing the Plan of Care

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  1. Reassessing the patient and reviewing the plan of care
  2. Clarifying prerequisite nursing competencies
  3. Organizing resources (patient, visitors, equipment, environment, personnel)
  4. Anticipating unexpected outcomes/situations
  5. Preventing errors and omissions (urge your patient to speak up)
  6. Promoting self care: teaching, counseling, advocacy
  7. Assisting patients to meet outcomes
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List and describe the two Variables Influencing Outcome Achievement

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  1. Patient variables
    - Developmental stage
    - Psychosocial background
  2. Nurse variables
    - Resources
    - Current standards of care
    - Research findings
    - Ethical and legal guides to practice
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Purposes for Evaluation

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  • Collect data to make judgments about nursing care
  • Examine client’s responses to nursing interventions
  • Compare client’s responses with outcome criteria
  • ***Appraise extent to which client goals met
    1. Completely met
    2. Partially met
    3. Completely unmet
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Evaluation Activities

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  1. Review patient goals and outcome criteria
  2. Collect data
  3. Measure goal attainment
  4. Assess facilitators of goal attainment
    - Goal completely met
    - Goal partially met
    - Goal completely unmet
    - New Problem
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Actions Based on Patient Response to Plan of Care

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  1. Terminate the plan of care when each expected outcome is achieved.
  2. Modify the plan of care if there are difficulties achieving the outcomes.
  3. Continue the plan of care if more time is needed to achieve the outcomes.
  4. Assess barriers to goal attainment (Patient, Family members or significant others, Nurse or other healthcare team members)
  5. Record judgments or measurements of goal attainment
  6. Revise or modify the patient’s plan of care

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