Chapter 1 Flashcards
Overall chapter 1 mainly talks about the nursing process !
What is the nursing process used for?
To provide appropriate delivery of patient care
What is the nursing process? (5)
Assessment
Diagnosis ( analysis )
Planning
Intervention
Evaluation
In which phase does the patient problem belong in for the nursing process?
Diagnosis! Or analysis
What type of model do we want to use when providing patient focus care and why not the other one?
Patient centered model
Instead of
Disease centered model
Is it a more holistic view to give a patient a patient center model rather than a disease model?
Yes!
What does the term concept map or more so patient focus model mean or include?
Patient health, illness, health promotion
Preventative, acute and chronic health
What type of data is collected in the assessment portion of the nursing process? (2)
Objective and subjective
What is subjective data?
What the patient tells you!
( I’m in pain ! )
What is objective data?
What you can see on a patient !
( they have blue lips, cyanosis )
What is going on in the diagnosis phase of the nursing process?
Taking those objective and subjective data to come to a definitive conclusion
What is going on in the planning stage of the nursing process?
Identify the expected outcomes of the patients diagnosis and set intervention methods to meet those outcomes
When in the planning stage, are the interventions being made are specific or not? And why?
Yes
Because we wanted to see improvement, not cause harm!
How can you achieve a better patient centered outcome?
Include patient and family!
What is going on in the nursing intervention phase of nursing process?
Taking action in the care for the patient to accomplish the expected outcomes
