CH 15 Flashcards
Types of Diagnoses
A: Nursing diagnosis:
B: Medical diagnosis:
C: Collaborative problems:
A: Describes patient problems nurses can treat independently.
B: Describes problems for which the physician directs the primary treatment.
C: Managed by using physician-prescribed and nursing-prescribed interventions
Four Steps of Data Interpretation and Analysis
Recognizing significant data: Comparing data to standards
Recognizing patterns or clusters
Identifying strengths and problems and potential complications
Reaching conclusions
A Nurse decides that a patient has a possible problem with high blood pressure. During which step of data interpretation would this most likely be determined?
Reaching conclusions
A Patient who admits to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day is diagnosed with lung cancer based on his symptoms and a series of test results. Which of the following is the etiology in this scenario?
Smoking cigarettes
Formulation of Nursing Diagnoses
A: Problem:
B: Etiology:
C: Defining characteristics:
A: identifies what is unhealthy about patient.
B: identifies factors maintaining the unhealthy state.
C: identify the subjective and objective data that signal the existence of a problem
Purposes of the Diagnosing Step
Identify how an individual, group, or community
responds to actual or potential health and life processes.
Identify factors that contribute to, or cause, health
problems (etiologies).
Identify resources or strengths on which the individual,
group, or community can draw to prevent or resolve
problems.
Which of the following nursing diagnoses is written
correctly?
A. Child Abuse related to maternal hostility
B. Breast Cancer related to family history
C. Deficient Knowledge related to alteration in diet
D. Imbalanced Nutrition related to insufficient funds in
meal budget
D. Imbalanced Nutrition related to insufficient
funds in meal budget
Rationale: Answer A makes legally inadvisable
statements, answer B is a medical diagnosis, and answer
C reverses the clauses in the statement.
T/F: A health promotion nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment concerning motivation and desire to increase well-being and to actualize human health potential.
True
A _____________ or a norm is a generally accepted rule, measure, pattern, or model to which data can be compared in the same class or category.
standard
A health ____________ is a condition that necessitates intervention to prevent or resolve disease or illness, or to promote coping and wellness.
problem
T/F: Most experienced nurses begin the work of interpreting and analyzing data after they have finished collecting it.
False
Using physician-prescribed and nursing-prescribed interventions are examples of ______________ problems that are managed by nurses to minimize the complications of an event.
collaborative
T/F: Risk nursing diagnoses are statements that an individual, family, or community is more vulnerable to develop the problem than others in the same or similar situation.
True
T/F: Nursing diagnoses focus on unhealthy responses to health and illness.
True
A _________________ nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment concerning an undesirable human response to a health condition/life process that exists in an individual, family, group, or community..
problem-focused
