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Referent

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Motivates one person to communicate with another. Cues initiate communication.

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Communication

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In nursing is a journey to a destination of clear meaning.

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Sender

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Is the person who delivers the message.

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Message

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Is the content of the conversation, including verbal and non verbal information the sender expresses

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Channel

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The means of conveying and receiving the message through visual, auditory, and tactile senses.

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Receiver

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You send the message to the receiver.

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Environment

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The physical and emotional climate in which the interaction takes place.

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Feedback

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The message the receiver returns to the sender is the feedback. It also indicates whether the receiver understood the meaning of the senders message

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Intrapersonal communication or self talk

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A powerful form of communication that occurs within an individual.

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Interpersonal commutation

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Is interaction that occurs between two people or within a small group

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Public communication

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Is the interaction of one individual with large groups of people.

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Verbal communication

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Involves the spoken or written word.

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Denotative meaning

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Common language share of a word

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Connotative meaning

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The shade or interpretation of a words meaning influenced by thoughts feelings, or ideas people have about a word.

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Nonverbal communication

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Messages sent through the language of the bold.

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Meta communication

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Is exploration of all factors that influence communication.

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Therapeutic communication

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You develop a relationship with the patient to meet several purposes.

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Sbar

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Stands for situation, background, assessment, recommendation

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Lateral violence

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Occurs in nurse to nurse interaction and includes behaviors such as withholding information, backbiting, making snide remarks and non verbal expressions of disapproval rolling eyes.

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Empathy

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The ability to understand and accept another persons perspective

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Sympathy

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The concern, sorrow, or pity you feel for the patient

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Assertive communication

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Based on a philosophy of protecting individual rights and responsibilities

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Touch

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One of the nurses most potent forms of communication

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Proteinuric

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Protein in the urine

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Voiding
Expelling urine from the bladder
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Micturition
Expelling urine from the bladder
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Urinary diversion
Urine drains through an artificial opening (stoma) on the abdominal wall
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Urinary retention
An accumulation of urine in the bladder because the bladder is unable to partially or completely empty
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Residual urine
Urine that remains in the bladder after urination
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Bacteriuria
Bacteria in the bladder
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Bacteremia or urosepsis
Bacteria entering the bloodstream
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Urinary incontinence
Tempory or permanent loss of control over voiding
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Stoma
Opening
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Urometers
Attach to catheter drainage tubing are a convent means to measure small urine volume
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Catheterization
Involves introducing a rubber or plastic tube through t urethra and into the bladder
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Intermittent catheterization
Introduce straight single use catheter long enough to drain the bladder 5 to 10 min. Remove immediately
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Indwelling catheterization
Repeat as needed but larger chance for infection
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Subrapubic catheter
Inserted surgically into the bladder through the lower abdomen
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Urinary reflux
Urine back flow into the bladder
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Ureterostomy
Drains from the ostomy site
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Nursing process
Assess, diagnose,plan,implement, evaluate
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Assessment
Deliberate and systematic collection of data about the patient
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Health history
Information about a patients physical and developmental status, emotional health social practices and resources, goals, values and lifestyle.
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Cue
Information that you obtain through use of the sense.
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Inference
Your judgment or interpretation of those cues.
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Subjective data
Your patients verbal description of their health problems
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Objective data
Observation or measurements of a patients health status
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Open ended questions
Tell me the problems you are having? Leads the patient to describe a situation in more than one or two words
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Back channeling
The practice of giving positive comments such as all right go on to the speaker
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Closed ended?
Limit the patients answers to one or two words such as yes or no
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Validation
assessment data is the comparison data with another source to confirm their accuracy
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Nursing diagnosis
Clinical judgement above individual, family, or community response to actual and potential health problems or life processes
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Medical diagnosis
The identification of a disease condition based on an evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, history, and diagnostic test and procedures
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Collaborative problems
An actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a patients status.
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Nursing diagnostic
Flows from the assessment process and includes data clustering, interpretation and analysis, identifying patient needs and formulating the nursing diagnosis
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Data clusters
Analysis begins by organizing all of your data into meaningful and useable dc
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Data analysis
Involves recognizing patterns or trends in the clustered data, comparing them with standard and then coming to a reasoned conclusion about the patients response to a health problem
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NANDA North American diagnosis association
To develop, refine,and promote a taxonomy (model) of nursing diagnostic term of general use for professional nurse
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Nanda international
Developed a model for organizing nursing diagnoses for documentation, auditing, and communication purpose
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Defining characteristics
The clinical criteria or assessment finding that actually support a nursing diagnosis.
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Related factor
A condition or etiologic factor that appears to show some type of patterned relationship with the nursing diagnosis
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Etiology
Always within the domain of nursing practice and a condition that responds to nursing interventions
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Planning
Setting priorities identifying patient centered goals and expected outcomes, and prescribing nursing intervention
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Goal
A specific and measurable behavior or response that reflects the patients highest possible level of wellness and independence a in function
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Expected outcome
Observable effects ( change in patients physical condition or behavior)
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Nursing sensitive outcome
Measurable patients or family state, behaviors, or perception largely influenced by and sensitive to nursing interventions ( pain severity)
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Independent nursing intervention
Nurses initiate on their own to act on a patients behalf
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Dependent nursing intervention
Requires an order from a physician or another health care professional to treat or manage a medical diagnosis
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Collaborative intervention
Therapies that require the combined knowledge, skills, and expertise of multiple health care professionals
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Interdisciplinary care plan
Contributions from all disciplines involved in patient care
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Concept map
Provides a visual representation of the complex level of thinking that nursing requires
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Critical pathways
Patient care management plans that provide the multidisciplinary health team with activities and tasks to be put into practice
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Consultation
Process in which you seek the expertise of a specialist, such as an instructor

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