Nursing Diagnosis - Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice

Question 1

The scholars who devised conceptual frameworks focused on models to assess and interpret data about individual patient situations. However, the conceptual frameworks were less explicit about how to plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care. To fill this gap, nursing ___ emerged as an additional phase in that process.

Answer 1

diagnosis

Question 2

Making explicit the idea that nurses arrived at a clinical judgement relating to actual or potential health processes, it became a discrete focus of theorizing about nursing care.

Answer 2

Nursing diagnosis

Question 3

In the 1970s, some scholars noted a need for precise language to categorize and document nursing diagnoses into a ___.

Answer 3

taxonomy

Question 4

Nursing taxonomy resulted in the formation of the ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ which held a series of consensus conferences to establish a list of the common patient problems addressed by practising nurses.

Answer 4

North American Nursing Diagnoses Association (NANDA)

Question 5

The nursing ___ movement led to considerable general debate on the merits of using NANDA’s fixed list of nursing diagnoses as compared to the theoretically infinite options for nursing care that had been intended by the conceptual models.

Answer 5

diagnosis

Question 6

Although it is recognized as practical rather than theoretical, ___’s list has become a popular device for organizing nursing care in part because it enables efficient categorization into electronic databases and the subsequent standardization of nursing care plans.

Answer 6

NANDA

Question 7

Despite its popularity with health care administrators, ___’s list is recognized by many nurses as a system that relies entirely upon an agreement about what constitutes average wellness and illness experiences. It can therefore create worrisome barriers to the individualized care of patients.

Answer 7

NANDA