Week 4 Flashcards
(41 cards)
What are the phases of the nursing process?
Assessment Diagnosis Planning outcomes Planning interventions Implementation Evaluation
What is the nursing process?
A systematic problem-solving process that guides all nursing actions. Helps provide goal-directed, patient-centered care.
Assessment
Data gathering
Diagnosis
Identify the patient’s health needs/problems
Planning outcomes
Decide goals you want to achieve with your nursing actions
Planning interventions
Choose interventions to help patient achieve stated goals
Implementation
Action phase when you carry out or delegate actions you previously planned
Evaluation
Judge whether your actions have successfully treated or prevented the patients health problems
Independent Intervention
One that registered nurses are licensed to prescribe, perform, or delegate based on their knowledge and skills.
Physician order is not needed.
Dependent Intervention
One that is prescribed by a physician or advanced practice nurse but carried out by the bedside nurse.
Usually orders for diagnostic tests, medications, treatments, IV therapy, diet, and activity.
Collaborative(interdependent) Interventions
One that is carried out in collaboration with other health team members(examples: PT, OT, dietician, and physicians).
Nursing activities that occur during the implementation phase of the nursing process include…
Using cognitive,interpersonal, and psychomotor skills.
Promote client participation.
Coordinate care.
Critical Thinking:
definition & example
A combination of reasoned thinking, openness to alternatives, and ability to effect, and a desire to seek truth.
The disciplined, intellectual process of applying skillful reasoning as a guide to brief or action.
List some critical thinking skills
Objectively gathering information
Recognizing the need for more information
Evaluating the credibility of sources and information
Recognizing gap’s in ones own knowledge
Listening carefully; reading thoughtfully
Etc.
List a few attitudes of the critical thinker…
Independent thinking Intellectual curiosity Intellectual humility Intellectual empathy Intellectual courage Etc.
List a few ways in which nurses use critical thinking…
Comorbidities
Individual differences
Using knowledge from other fields
Theoretical Knowledge
Consist of information, principles, and evidence-based theories in nursing and related disciplines. Includes research findings and rationally constructed explanations of phenomena.
Practical/ Procedural Knowledge
Knowing what to do and how to do it
Name the main concepts of the full-spectrum nursing model…
Thinking
Doing
Caring
Patient Situation
Nursing Diagnosis
A statement of client health status that nurses can identify, prevent, or treat independently.
Medical Diagnosis
Describes a disease, illness, or injury
Actual Nursing Diagnosis
A problem response that exists at the time of the assessment
Risk Nursing Diagnosis
Describes a problem response that is likely to develop in a vulnerable patient if the nurse and patient do not intervene to prevent it.
Possible Nursing Diagnosis
Exists when your intuition and experience direct you to suspect that a diagnosis is present, but you do not have enough data to support the diagnosis.
