Assessment and Diagnosis Flashcards
Is a systematic, rational method of planning and providing individualized nursing care.
Nursing Process
in the nursing process, the client may be a?
an individual, a family, a community, or a group.
Enumerate the Purpose of the Nursing Process
To identify a client’s health status
To identify actual or potential health care problems or needs
To establish plans to meet the identified needs
To deliver specific nursing interventions to meet those needs.
among the choices, which is not the purpose of the nursing process:
A. To identify a client’s health status
B. To identify actual or potential health care problems or needs
C. To establish rapport about the patient
D. To know the specific nursing interventions to meet those needs.
C
enumerate the characteristics of the Nursing Process
- Cyclic and dynamic nature
- Client centeredness
- Focus on problem solving
- Decision making
- Interpersonal and collaborative style
- Universal applicability
- Use of critical thinking
- Use of clinical reasoning
Characteristics of the Nursing Process where:
Data from each phase provide input into the next phase. Findings from the evaluation phase feed back into assessment. Hence, the nursing process is a regularly repeated event or sequence of events that is continuously changing rather than staying the same.
Cyclic and dynamic nature
Characteristics of the Nursing Process where:
The nurse organizes the plan of care according to client problems rather than nursing goals.
Client Centeredness
Characteristics of the Nursing Process where:
In the assessment phase, the nurse collects data to determine the client’s habits, routines, and needs, enabling the nurse to incorporate client routines into the care plan as much as possible.
Client Centeredness
Characteristics of the Nursing Process where:
mental activity in which a problem is identified (unsteady state) and requires clarifying the nature of the problem and suggesting possible solutions.
Focus on Problem Solving
Characteristics of the Nursing Process where:
Nurses can be highly creative in determining when and how to use data to make decisions.
Decision making
Characteristics of the Nursing Process where:
It requires the nurse to communicate directly and consistently with clients and families to meet their needs. It also requires that nurses collaborate, as members of the health care team, in a joint effort to provide quality client care.
Interpersonal and collaborative style
Characteristics of the Nursing Process where:
it is used as a framework for nursing care in all types of health care settings, with clients of all age groups.
Universal Applicability
Characteristics of the Nursing Process where:
requires the nurse to think creatively, use reflection, and engage in analytical thinking
Use of Critical THinking
Characteristics of the Nursing Process where:
By reflecting the nurse determines whether the outcome of care was appropriate.
use of clinical reasoning
term “nursing process” was coined by ____ and ____ in _____
Lydia Hall and Dorothy Johnson in 1955
were the first user with the series of phases describing the nursing process.
Orlando and Ernestein Weidenbach
what year was the nursing process was formally introduced as a tool for nursing practice?
1967
first to introduce the term nursing diagnosis.
Fry (1953)
Is the first step in the nursing process.
Assessment
Is the systematic & continuous collection, organization, validation and documentation of data or information
Assessment
Is carried out during all phases of the nursing Process
Assessment
Give the Four(4) type of assessment
Initial Assessment
Problem-focused assessment
Emergency assessment
Time-lapsed reassessment
a type of assessment performed within a specified time after admission to healthcare facility
Initial Assessment
type of assessment done to establish a complete database for problem identification, reference & future comparison.
Initial Assessment
type of assessment performed to determine status of a specific problem identified in an earlier assessment
Problem-focused assessment
type of assessment for the MIO
Problem-focused assessment
assessment used to assess self-care ability (improved or worsened)
Problem-focused assessment
assessment performed during physiologic or psychologic crisis of the client
Emergency assessment