Chapter 7: Nursing Process and Standards of Care (Book)

Question 1

evidence based practice

Answer 1

clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

Question 2

health teaching

Answer 2

Communicates facts, ideas, and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of individuals, families, systems, and/or communities.

Question 3

mental status examination

Answer 3

An assessment strategy for people with cognitive disorders involving evaluation of appearance, mood, orientation, and odd behaviors, speech, or thoughts.

Question 4

milieu therapy

Answer 4

is a psychiatric philosophy that involves a secure environment including people, settings, structure, and emotional climate to support recovery

Question 5

objective data

Answer 5

referent all things that nurses observe or are verified through tests

Question 6

outcome criteria

Answer 6

are the hoped for outcomes that reflect the maximum level of patient health that the patient can realistically achieve through nursing interventions

Question 7

psychosocial assessment

Answer 7

Provides additional information from which to develop a plan of care.

Question 8

self care activities

Answer 8

assists the patient in assuming personal responsibility for activities of daily living (ADLs) and is aimed at improving the patient’s mental and physical well-being

Question 9

subjective data

Answer 9

refers to all information that you gather from a patient and from people who may accompany the patient