Module 6: The nursing process and evidence-based practice Flashcards
When providing nursing care nurses engage in an intellectual process of reasoning - The nursing process. It is a cognitive framework through which one aims to…
Identify, diagnosis, and treat actual and potential health issues and challenges of clients from a holistic perspective
What are the four patterns of knowing that her essential to nursing knowledge development?
Empirical knowing, aesthetic knowing, Personal knowing, ethical knowing
Personal knowing involves
Interactions, relationships, and transactions between the nurse and the patient-client
What is empirical knowing?
When knowledge you apply to your practice arises from exploratory, descriptive, or inferential studies about findings that influence aspects of practice, you will generate knowledge to guide your clinical decision making process around one of your patterns of knowing referred to you as empirical knowing
What is aesthetic knowing (or art of nursing)?
Where our personalitiy and approaches to creating relationships with others comes into play
What is ethical knowing (or moral knowledge in Nursing)?
How we select from our empirical, aesthetic, and personal patterns of knowing is also influence by a pattern of ethical knowing, which is shaped initially by our own values
Define evidence informed practice
the integration of the most informative research evidence with evidence from expert clinical practice, client preferences, professional clinical judgment, and other sources to produce the best possible care for clients
Nursing diagnosis are in a two part format the diagnostic label followed by a statement of a related factor. What is the diagnostic label?
The name of the nursing diagnosis. Includes descriptors for example impaired, decreased, etc.
What is related factors in the nursing diagnosis?
A condition or etiology identified from the clients assessment data. It is associated with clients actual or potential response to the health problems
What is inference?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
