Implementation Flashcards
Action phase; actual initiation of the plan.
Implementation phase
Activities of Implementation phase:
- Reassessment
- Setting priorities
- Perform nursing interventions
- Recording of nursing actions
Implementation Skills Needed:
- Intellectual skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Technical skills
Any treatment based upon clinical judgment and knowledge that a nurse performs to enhance patient/client outcomes.
Nursing interventions
Functions of Nursing interventions:
- Monitor health status
- Prevent, resolve, or control a problem
- Assist with activities of daily living
- Promote optimum health and independence
Interventions can be:
- Direct or indirect
- Independent, dependent, interdependent
- Multidisciplinary
They are organized into 7 domains, classes, and interventions by a research team from Iowa College of Nursing
Nursing interventions
How many interventions does NIC provide?
554 interventions
It provides label and definition for each intervention.
Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)
Domains and classes of NIC:
- Physiologic
- Physiologic: Complex
- Behavioral
- Safety
- Family Childbearing
- Health System
- Community
Major Categories of NIC:
- Cognitive interventions
- Interpersonal interventions
- Technical interventions
Applying general principles of teaching and learning process.
Cognitive interventions
Develop teaching plan, health education, assess readiness to learn.
Educational interventions
Transfer of responsibility for the performance of the task to another individual while retaining accountability for the outcome.
Delegation
Overseeing overall care of patient; includes ensuring that other members of the team and those involved with patient and family show return demonstration of care.
Supervisory intervention
Done with other members of the health team.
Coordinationg interventions
Examples of coordinating interventions:
- Referral to other health care
- Self-help group
- Home health agencies
The use of communication skills, relief of spiritual distress, and caring behavior and comfort.
Supportive interventions
Exploring feelings; focus on resolving emotional, psychological, or social problems.
Psychosocial interventions
Retains certain state of health, preventing complication or deterioration of physical and psychological functioning and preserving independence.
Maintenance interventions
Maintenance interventions include:
- Basic hygiene
- Skin care
- Other routine nursing activities
Include detecting changes from baseline data and recognizing abnormal responses.
Surveillance or Monitoring interventions
Examples of Surveillance or Monitoring interventions:
- Frequent checking of VS
- Detecting odors
- Skin temperature
Examples of Psychomotor interventions:
- Insertion of catheter
- Suctioning
- Care of equipment
- Changing
- Removing
- Cleansing
