Nursing Process And Critical Thinking Flashcards
NURSING: WHAT IS IT?
Florence Nightingale
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• “Charge of the personal health of somebody
• “What nursing has to do……. Is to put the patient in the best possible condition for nature to act upon him.”
NURSING: WHAT IS IT?
AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION (ANA, 2003, AS CITED IN ANA, 2004, P.7)
• Is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individual, families, communities, and populations.
NURSING: WHAT IS IT?
The ANA defined nursing in _ and reaffirmed that definition in _.
1980, 1995
• The definition describes the scope of nursing practice:
- Is the diagnosis and treatment of
human responses to actual or potential health problems.
o NURSING DX (nursing diagnosis)
• Purposeful, disciplined, reflective reasoning focused on finding meaning, deciding what to believe and do, and improve the current situation.
CRITICAL THINKING
Is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication as guide to belief and action.
CRITICAL THINKING according to Kozier
• A systematic way to form and shape one’s thinking.
CRITICAL THINKING according to TAYLOR
COMPONENTS OF CRITICAL THINKING FOR CLINICAL JUDGEMENT:
• Cognitive skills (thinking)
• Affective skills (feelings and beliefs)
• Personality traits
GOOD CLINICAL JUDGEMENT IN NURSING =
knowledge + clinical experience + reasoning skills using nursing process + attitudes + standards
THREE LEVELS OF CRITICAL THINKING:
• COMMITED LEVEL/ EXPERT
• COMPLEX LEVEL/ INTERMEDIATE
• BASIC LEVEL/ NOVICE
• Solution is for the patient in this situation
• based on +/- of the solutions
• years of knowledge and experience
Commited Level/ Expert
• The right answer depends
• several solutions: which one?
• sees +/- of each solution
• more knowledge and
experiences
COMPLEX LEVEL/ INTERMEDIATE
• Tell me the answer
• only one right answer
• right or wrong
• less knowledge and experience
BASIC LEVEL/ NOVICE
CHARACTERISTICS OF CRITICAL THINKERS:
Inquisitive/ curiosity
Systematic
Fair-minded
Analytic
Critical Thinking Confidence
Truth seeking
Mature thinking leads to independence
ATTITUDE THAT POSTER CRITICAL THINKERS:
Insight into egocentricity
Intellectual humility
Intellectual courage to challenge status quo and rituals
Integrity
Perseverance
• The ______ is the way one thinks like a nurse.
Nursing Process
INTRODUCTION TO NURSING PROCESS: BACKGROUND AND HISTORY
1955, Lydia Hall - first used term nursing process (nursing is a process – series of actions directed toward a
specific aim).
1959, Dorothy Johnson
- Described nursing as fostering the behavioral
functioning of the client. (assessment decision action).
1961, Ida Jean Orlando
- Is the interaction of 1) client behavior; 2) reaction to nurse; 3) nursing action
1963, Ernestine Wiedenbach
- identify act, evaluate).
1960’s - nursing theorists began to describe nursing as distinct entity among the health care professions and also delineated specific steps in a process approach.
1967, Yura & Walsh
- published the
comprehensive book on nursing process, in which they describe 4
steps in nursing process: APIE. They viewed nursing diagnosis as conclusion of assessment
1974, Gebbie and Lavin
made nursing diagnosis a separate
step in process: ANPIE
1973 - Steps in Nursing Process legitimized when ANA Congress of Nursing Practice developed standards of practice to guide nursing performance. These standards were revised in 1991, 1998, and 2003.
• In latest edition, the ANA list 6 separate steps of Nursing Process:
- Assessment;
- Diagnosis;
- Outcome identification;
- Planning
- Implementation;
- Evaluation.
OTHER ADVANTAGES TO BECOME SKILLED IN THE USE OF NURSING PROCESS:
• Graduation from an Accredited School of Nursing
• Confidence
• Job Satisfaction
• Professional Growth
• Aid in Staff Assignment
• Employment in Nationally Accredited Hospital
• is a systematic, rational method of planning and providing individualized nursing care. (Kozier)
Nursing Process
PURPOSE & IMPORTANCE OF NURSING PROCESS (KOZIER):
• To identify a client’s health status and actual or potential health problems or needs.
• To establish plans to meet the identified needs
• To deliver specific nursing intervention to meet those needs
• The process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish the following:
o Systematically collect patient data
o Clearly identify patient’s strengths and actual and potential problems
o Develop a holistic plan of individualized care that specifies the desire patient goals and related outcomes and the nursing interventions most likely to assist the
patient to meet those expected outcomes
o Execute the plan outcomes
o Evaluate the effectiveness of the plan of care in terms of patient goal achievement
SKILLS REQUIRED IN UTILIZING NURSING PROCESS:
Intellectual/ Cognitive Skills
Technical Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Ethical and Legal Skills
• Offers a scientific rationale for the patient
• Select those nursing interventions that are most likely to yield the desire outcome
• Use critical thinking to solve problems creatively
Intellectual/ cognitive skills
MANIPULATES EQUIPMENTS SKILFULLY TO PRODUCE A DESIRED OUTCOME OR RESULT. THEY ARE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE FOLLOWING:
• Use technical equipment with sufficient competence and ease to achieve goals with minimal distress to participants involved.
• Creatively adapt equipment and technical procedure to the needs of particular patients in diverse circumstances.
TECHNICAL SKILLS