Lecture 3 Flashcards
Define: Assessing systematically and comprehensively
Using an organised approach that enhances your ability to discover all information needed to fully understand a persons health status
How is assessing systematically and comprehensively related to clinical reasoning?
Having an organised approach aids in prevention of missing steps
How to assess systematically and comprehensively?
Be purposeful and focused, use correct approach, use correct data collection tools, concider source of info (family, notes etc), concider subjective and objective data, prioritise
What are the 5 W’s and one H
Who, what, when, where, why, how. For decision making and clinical judgement
Who:
Who are the players in the situation, who else might need to be involved
What:
What are the priorities in the situation?
Why:
Why do you think the situation needs to be addressed?
When:
When is this occurring? Does it need to be addressed right now? Does involve a short term or long term plan?
Where:
Where is it happening? Is it appropriate to address it in the current environment, has the issue occurred in more than one place? Does it affect multiple areas?
How:
Based on the W’s. How does it all fit together for a plan of action to summarise your subsequent nursing actions
Blooms 6 stages of thinking from lower to higher
Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation
(Bloom) Knowledge:
Remembering things
(Bloom) Comprehension:
Understanding things
(Bloom) Application:
Doing things
(Bloom) Analysis:
Examining things
