Chapter One - Critical Thinking Flashcards
Assessment
Collection of subjective and objective data about a patients health
Database
Totality of information available about the patient
-subjective and objective
Examples of databases
Patient records, lab studies
The purpose of assessment is to make a
Judgement or diagnosis
Diagnostic reasoning
Process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnosis
Four main components of diagnostic reasoning
-attending to cues
-formulating hypotheses
-gathering data for hypothesis
-evaluating each hypothesis
Validating data
Ensures that the information you have collected is accurate and helps to identify missing information
What process is essential to critical thinknig
Validating data
What is the nursing process
A dynamic interactive process in which practitioners move back and forth among the phases
Five phases of the nursing process
Assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation
Critical thinking
Multidimensional thinking process needed for sound diagnostic reasoning and clinical judgment
First level priority problems
Emergent, life threatening and immediate
-need for airway or supportive breathing
Second level priority problems
Require promotion intervention to prevent deterioration
-mental health change or acute plan
Third level priority
Important to the patients health but can be addressed after dealing with more urgent problems
-lack of knowledge or family coping
Collaborative problems
Physiological complications in which the approach to treatment encompasses multiple disciplines
-diagnosis onset of problems and monitor changes in status
