Exam 3: Chapter 15: Diagnosing

Question 1

Purpose of Diagnosing?

Answer 1

Identify how an individual, group, or community responds to actual or potential health and life processes
Identify factors that contribute to, or cause, helth problems
Identify resources or strengths on which the individual, group, or community can draw to prevent or resolve problems

Question 2

What is a Health problem?

Answer 2

A condition that necessitates intervention to prevent or resolve disease or illness or to promote coping and wellness

Question 3

Nursing Concerns and Responsibilities (Alfaro) (1)

Answer 3

Recognizing safety and infection-transmission risk and addressing these immediately

Question 4

Nursing Concerns and Responsibilities (Alfaro) (2)

Answer 4

Identifying human responses - how problems, signs and symptoms, and treatment regimens impact on patients lives - and promoting optimum function, independence and quality of life

Question 5

Nursing Concerns and Responsibilities (Alfaro) (3)

Answer 5

Anicipating possible complications and taking steps to prevent them

Question 6

Nursing Concerns and Responsibilities (Alfaro) (4)

Answer 6

Initiating urgent interventions. You should not wait to make a final diagnosis if there are signs and symptoms indicating the need for immediate treatment

Question 7

What are nursing diagnoses?

Answer 7

Actual or potential health problesm that can be prevented or resolved by independent nursing intervention

Question 8

What is a medical diagnosis?

Answer 8

Describes problems for which the physician directs the primary treatment. Remaisn the same for as long as the disease is treatment

Question 9

What are Collaborative Problems?

Answer 9

Certian physiologic complications that nurses monitor to detect onset or changes in status. Nurses manage collaborative problems using physican-prescribed and nurse interventions to minimize the complications of the event.

Question 10

Data Interpretation and Analysis Categories and Examples

Answer 10

Recognizing Significant Data: Comparing Data to Standards
Recognizing Patterns or Clusters
Identifying Strengths and Problems
Identifying Potential Complications
Reaching Conclusions

Question 11

Three Steps for Formulation of Nursing Diagnoses?

Answer 11

Problems –> Etiology –> Defining Characteristics

Question 12

Nursing Diagnoses: Problem

Answer 12

Identifies what is unhealthy about patient (nursing diagnosis statement)

Question 13

Nursing Diagnoses: Etiology

Answer 13

Identifies factors maintaining the unhealthy state (cause of nursing diagnoses)

Question 14

Nursing Diagnoses: Defining Characteristics

Answer 14

Identifies the subjective and objective data that signals the existence of a problem (presenting signs and symptoms that prove the nursing diagnoses, NOT THE ETIOLOGY)

Question 15

Example of Nursing Diagnoses

Answer 15

Pain (1) R/T (2) Ankle Sprain AEB (3) pt rates pain a 7 on 0-10 pain scale.

Question 16

What is a Problem-Focused Nursing Diagnosis

Answer 16

Clinical judgement concerning a undesirable human response to a health condition/life process that exists in an individual, family, group, or community

Question 17

What is a Risk Nursing Diagnosis

Answer 17

Clinical judgement concerning the vulnerability of an individual, family, group, or community for developing an undesirable human response to health conditions

Question 18

Benefits of Nursing Ddiagnoses

Answer 18

Individualizing patient care
Allows patient to be informemd and participate in their care
Communication among nurse and healthcare providers

Question 19

Common Errors in Writing Nursing Diagnoses

Answer 19

Writing Diagnosis in terms of needs and response
Identifying a problem signs and symptoms of illness
Identifying as a patienet provlem or etiology what cannot be changes
Reversing Clauss
Having both clauses say the same thing.

Question 20

What will Risk for not have in Nursing Diagnosis?

Answer 20

It will not have AEB