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Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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Subjective data

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What the person says themselves during the interview

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Objective data

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What you observe by inspection, percussing, palpating, and auscultating

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3
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Purpose of assessment

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To make judgment or diagnosis

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4
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Data base

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Subjective, objective, patients record, and lab studies

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5
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Diagnostic reasoning

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The process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses

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Four components to diagnostic reasoning

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1) Attending to initially available cues
2) Formulating diagnostic hypothesis
3) Gathering data relative to tentative hypotheses
4) Evaluating each hypothesis with new data collected (driving at final diagnosis)

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7
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Cues

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A piece of information, sign, symptom, or piece of lab data

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Hypothesis

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tentative explanation for a cue or set of cues that can be used as a basis for further investigation

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Parts of the nursing process

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Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcome identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluate
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10
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Critical thinking enables you to

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  • Analyze complex data
  • Make decisions about patient problems and alternatives
  • Evaluate each problem to decide which applies
  • Decide on most appropriate interventions based on situation
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11
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Identify assumptions

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Dont assume anything before you gather the facts

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12
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Validate

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always validate information

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13
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Distinguish normal from abnormal

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Ensure you know your patient’s normal

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14
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Identify and…

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organize comprehensive approach to assessment

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15
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Make inferences

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Drawing valid conclusions

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16
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Clustering related cues

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Cluster alike information to sort the information

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17
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Distinguish

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relevant from irrelevant

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18
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Recognize inconsistencies

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Is the person’s story changing?

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19
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Identify…

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Patterns and missing information

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20
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Promoting health by identifying risk factors

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Make sure you identify the patient

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21
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Ensure to diagnose both

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actual and potential problems

22
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First level

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Emergent, life threatening problems that cannot wait

23
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First level examples

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Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Vital signs

24
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Second level

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Require prompt intervention to stop further deterioration

25
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Second level examples

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Mental status change
Acute pain
Acute urinary elimination
Untreated medical problems
abnormal lab values
risk of infection
risk of safety and security
26
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Third level

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Important to patients health but can be addressed at a later time

27
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Third level examples

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weight loss
Stoping smoking
Dietary management
Increasing activity

28
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Outcomes should be patient centered

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You cannot make changes the patient is not ready for

ex: smoking/weight loss

29
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You should determine specific

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interventions

30
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When evaluating you should

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look at what you have done and correct thinking

31
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Determining a comprehensive plan/evaluation

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come up with a plan and all faculty must collaborate to help

32
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Four factors of decision making

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  • Best evidence from a critical review of literature
  • Clinical expertise and experience
  • Patient preference
  • Physical examination and assessment
33
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Complete health history

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Health history
Physical exam
Information about diagnosis

Primary care, community health nurse, visiting nurse, administration to hospital

34
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Focused database

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  • For limited or short term problem
  • Only for a certain area or body part
  • Used in times such as urgent care
35
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Follow up

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Has the problem changed? is it getting better or worse?

Post surgery, checking blood pressure, medication check

36
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Emergency data base

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Urgent and rapid collection of information while completing lifesaving measures

Taking vital signs while acting

37
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Holistic health

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looking at the whole person

38
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Mind body and spirit

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are independent and function as a whole

39
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Disease originates

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from both internally and externally

40
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Individual and environment are…

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open systems

41
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Each person is responsible for self-health and is active in their health care

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You can’t make someone do something they dont want to do

42
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Health promotion and disease prevention are the core of nursing practice

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Can we get you healthy and keep you that way?

43
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Lifestyle behaviors

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Diet, exercise

44
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Culture and values

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Some religion restricts type of care you can give

45
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Family and social roles

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Who takes care of who?

46
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Self-care behaviors

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keeping up with hygiene, ADL’s

47
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Job related stress

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Can cause high blood pressure

48
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Developmental tasks

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Developmental stages (where are you mentally, socially?)

49
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Failures and frustrations of life

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what in life that makes you frustrated and feel like a failure.

How do you deal with it?

50
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Disease prevention

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Counseling from primary care providers designed to change people’s unhealthy behaviors related to smoking, alcohol, and other drug use, lack of exercise, poor nutrition, injuries, and STI’s

51
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Health promotion

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A set of positive acts that we can take

Teaching and helping consumer choose a healthier lifestyle
Education, leading by example

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