ADPIE I Flashcards
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A deliberate problem-solving approach for meeting people’s healthcare and nursing needs.
Nursing Process
These are the five key steps involved in the Nursing Process.
Evaluation
Implementation
Planning
Diagnosis
Assessment
These are the defining characteristics of the Nursing Process.
Confined to bed rest
Cyclic and dynamic
Planned
Uses problem-solving techniques
Client-centered
Provides the framework for care
The process of systematically collecting, organizing, validating, and documenting data to determine a patient’s health status and problems.
Assessment
These are the four types of assessment used in nursing practice.
Emergency Assessment
Episodic/Follow-up Assessment
Problem-based/Focused Assessment
Initial Comprehensive Assessment
A detailed history and physical examination performed at the onset of care in a primary care setting or upon hospital admission.
Initial Comprehensive Assessment
A history and physical examination limited to a specific problem or complaint (e.g., a sprained ankle).
Problem-based/Focused Assessment
An assessment performed when a patient follows up for a previously identified problem.
Episodic/Follow-up Assessment
An assessment done during a physiological or psychological crisis that requires immediate action.
Emergency Assessment
The process of gathering information about the client’s health status, which is essential for accurate diagnosis and intervention.
Data Collection
These are the three essential characteristics of data in nursing.
Relevant
Accurate
Complete
The main source of information about a patient’s health.
Primary Source of Data (Client)
Other sources of patient information, including family members, reports, test results, and medical records.
Secondary Sources of Data
Information that only the client can describe, such as pain, itching, and weakness.
Subjective Data
Information that can be observed or measured, such as blood pressure, redness, and cyanosis.
Objective Data
The three primary methods of data collection used in nursing practice.
Physical Assessment
Interview
Observation
The process of using senses (sight, hearing, touch, and smell) to gather data about a client’s health status.
Observation
A structured conversation used to collect subjective data about a client’s health history and concerns.
Interview
The examination of the client using techniques such as inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.
Physical Assessment
The second step of the Nursing Process, which describes clinical judgments about individual, family, or community responses to health problems/life processes.
Diagnosis (Nursing Diagnosis)
These are the three components of a Nursing Diagnosis.
Signs and Symptoms
Etiology (Cause)
Problem
The diagnostic label that describes the client’s health problem or response.
Problem Component of Nursing Diagnosis
The identified cause or contributing factor of the health problem, written as “related to” in the diagnosis statement.
Etiology (Cause) Component of Nursing Diagnosis
The cluster of signs and symptoms that indicate the presence of a particular diagnosis, written as “as evidenced by” or “as manifested by.”
Signs and Symptoms Component of Nursing Diagnosis