Chapter 10 - The Assessment Process Flashcards
Risk Factors
Characteristics, conditions, situations, and events that increase the individual’s vulnerability to threads to safety or well-being
Protective Factors
Attributes or conditions of an individual, family, and/or community when present reduces, mitigates, or eliminates risk
Promotive factors
Conditions or attributes of individuals, families, and/or communities that actively enhance well-being
Suicidal ideation
Thoughts about deliberate self-harm or of self-inflicted death
Threats of suicide
A verbal or behavioural indication (direct or indirect) that an individual is planning to end his or her life
Suicide attempt
Action taken with the intent of ending one’s life
What is important about assaultive or homicidal ideation?
Delusions or hallucinations that involve harming or killing others
What status is looked at under social domain?
Functional status
Nursing process
Systematic and dynamic approach to collecting and analyzing client information
Steps of nursing process
Assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation
Comprehensive assessment
Includes a complex health history and physical examination; consider the psychological, emotional, social, spiritual, ethic, and cultural dimensions of health
Purpose of a comprehensive assessment
To develop a holistic understanding of the individual’s problems and how all of this affects the individual’s daily living
Basis for establishing baseline health-illness information
Necessary to establish a diagnosis, identify treatment goals, and develop a plan of care
