Chapter 1-The Nursing Process And Drug Therapy Flashcards
What happens in the assessment phase of the nursing process?
Data are collected, reviewed, and analyzed.
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Explain the nursing process:
An organizational framework for the practice of nursing. It encompasses all steps taken by the nurse and caring for patient:
- assessment,
- nursing diagnoses,
- planning (with goals and outcome criteria),
- implementation of the plan (with patient teaching),
- evaluation.
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What happens in the nursing diagnoses step in the nursing process?
They are made as a result of critical thinking, creativity, and accurate collection of data regarding the patient as well as the drug.
It is usually a three-step process:
- The human response of the patient to illness, injury, or significant change
- Identifying the factors related to the response, with more than one factor often named
- A listing of clues, cues, evidence, or other data that supports the nurse’s claims that this diagnosis is accurate
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what happens in the planning step of the nursing process?
Identification of goals and outcome criteria. The major purposes of the planning phase are to prioritize the nursing diagnosis and specify goals and outcome criteria, including the timeframe for their achievement
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What are goals and outcome criteria in the planning step of the nursing process?
Goals are objective, measurable, and realistic, with an established time for achievement of the outcomes. Such goals include behavior-based and maybe categorized into physiologic, psychological, spiritual, sexual, cognitive, motor, and or other domains.
Outcome criteria are concrete descriptions of patient goals. These are patient focused, six synced, and well thought out. They also include expectations for behavior indicating something that can be changed and with a specific timeframe a deadline.
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What happens in the implementation step of the nursing process?
The six rights of medication administration
guided by the preceding phases of the nursing process (i.e., Assessment, nursing diagnoses, and planning).
Initiation and completion of specific nursing actions as defined by nursing diagnoses goals and outcome criteria
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What are the six rights of medication administration?
Involved in the implementation steps of the nursing process:
- Right drug
- Right dose
- Right time
- Right route
- Right patient
- Right documentation
Medication errors:
Any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use our patient harm well the medication is in the control of the healthcare professional, patient, or consumer.
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What happens in the evaluation step of the nursing process?
It is systematic ongoing and a dynamic phase of the nursing process as related to drug therapy. It includes monitoring this assortment of goals and outcome criteria, as well as monitoring the patients therapeutic response to the drug and it’s adverse and toxic effects. Documentation is also very important component.
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