Nursing Process Flashcards
A format or method used by nurses to identify patient problems and meet patient needs.
Nursing Process
A result or decision of applying clinical reasoning to a patient situation.
Clinical Judgement
Clinical practices are evaluated to determine which processes yield the best outcomes.
Evidenced-Based Practice
Data is evaluated and combined then arranged by finding links between concepts to help you see their relationships.
Concept Maps
What are the steps of the nursing process?
Assessment, Nursing Diagnosis, Plan, Implement, Evaluation
The nurse is reviewing medical records, talking to the patient and family to get information, conducting an assessment, and reviewing diagnostics. Which step of the nursing process is the nurse conducting?
Assessment
The nurse is conducting nursing interventions to address the patients problems and goals. Which step of the nursing process is the nurse conducting?
Implement
The nurse and patient collaborate to develop goals to fix the patients problems. Which step of the nursing process is the nurse conducting?
Plan
The nurse is reviewing how the patient responded to the nursing interventions. Which step of the nursing process is the nurse conducting?
Evaluation
The RN will analyze collected data from the assessment and develop a problem list. Which step of the nursing process is the nurse conducting?
Nursing Diagnosis
Critical thinking applied to the clinical setting.
Clinical reasoning
The nurse evaluates and analyzes data to try to figure out what is going on with the patient, how to fix the issues, and to identify any potential issues before they happen.
Critical thinking
