Prelims Flashcards

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Seek to define what nursing is

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Philosophies about Nursing

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▪Tasks and Technical Skills
▪Moral/Ethical Behavior
▪Personal Growth and Development
▪Personal Knowledge
▪Professional Aesthetic Expression

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Professional Activities
By Chinn & Kramer 1999

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She completed a bachelor of arts degree at Wellesly College in 1922 and entered Johns Hopkins School of Nursing after

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Ernestine Wiedenbach

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At age 45, she enrolled in the school for midwives at the maternity center association of new york

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Ernestine Wiedenbach

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She taught at Yale School of Nursing and directed start the maternal newborn program

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Ernestine Wiedenbach

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Clinical Nursing : A Helping Art

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Ernestine Wiedenbach

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She retired in 1966

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Ernestine Wiedenbach

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▪Philosophy
▪Purpose
▪Practice
▪Art

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Four Elements of Clinical Nursing
By Ernestine Wiedenbach

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An attitude towards life and reality that evolves from each nurse’s beliefs and code of conduct

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Philosophy

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A. Reverence for the gift of life
B. Respect for the Dignity, Worth, Autonomy, and Individuality of each human being
C. A resolution to act on personally and professionally held beliefs

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Three essential components for nursing philosophy

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That which the nurse wants to accomplish through what he or she does – the overall goals for professional practice, including activities directed toward the overall good of the patient

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Purpose

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12
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Observable nursing actions that are influenced by disciplined thoughts and feelings toward meeting the patients’s need for help.

These actions are goal directed and patient centered.

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Practice

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13
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A. The nurse’s understanding
B. The nurse’s internal goals and external actions
C. The nurse’s actitivites directed towards improvement
D. The nurse’s interventions aimed at prevention of recurrence

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Art of Clinical Nursing

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  1. The Patient
  2. A Need for Help
  3. [Clinical] Judgement
  4. Nursing Skills
  5. Person (whether Nurse or Patient)
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Five Key Terms of Actual Nursing Practice
by Ernestine Wiedenbach

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Any person who entered the healthcare system and is receiving help of some kind, such as care, teaching or advice

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Patient

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Any measure desired by the patient that has the potential to restore or extend the patient’s ability to cope with various life situations that affect health and wellness

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Need for Help

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17
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Represents the nurse’s likeness to make sound decisions

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Clinical Judgement

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Based on differentiating facts from assumption and relating them to cause and effect

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Sound Decisions

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Result of disciplined functioning of mind and emotions and improves with knowledge and increased clarity of professional purpose

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Sound Judgement

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Made up of a variety of actions and characterized by harmony of movement, precision and effective use of self

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Nursing Skills

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Carried out to achieve a specific patient-centered purpose rather than the completion of the skill itself being the end goal

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Nursing Skills

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22
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Endowed with a unique potential to develop self-sustaining resources

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Person

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23
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Generally tend toward independence and fullfillment of responsibilities

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Person

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Self-Awareness and Self-Acceptance are essential to personal integrity and self-worth

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Person

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Whatever an individual does at any given moment represents the best available judgement for that person at that time

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Person

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  1. Observe behaviors consistent and inconsistent with their comfort
  2. Explore the meaning of their behavior
  3. Determine the cause of discomfort or incapability
  4. Determine whether they can resolve their problems or have a need for help
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Identify the Patient’s Need for Help

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27
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The Lady with the Lamp

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Florence Nightingale

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28
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The Nightingale of Modern Nursing

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Virginia Henderson

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29
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Notes on Nursing 1860

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Florence Nightingale

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30
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The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery

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The Environmental Theory
by Florence Nightingale

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  1. Nursing
  2. Human Being
  3. Environment
  4. Health
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Four Major Concepts of the Environmental Theory

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  1. Health of Houses
  2. Ventilation and Warming
  3. Light
  4. Noise
  5. Variety
  6. Bed and Bedding
  7. Personal Cleanliness
  8. Nutrition and Taking Food
  9. Chattering Hopes and Advice
  10. Social Considerations
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Ten Subconcepts of the Environmental Theory

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  1. Pure Fresh Air
  2. Pure Water
  3. Effective Drainage
  4. Cleanliness
  5. Light
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Environmental Factors

34
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Patient independence and basic human needs to prevent delays in progress after hospitalization

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The Nursing Need Theory
by Virginia Henderson

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  1. Normal Breathing
  2. Eat and Drink adequately
  3. Eliminate Body Wastes
  4. Move and Maintain Desirable Postures
  5. Sleep and Rest
  6. Select Suitable Clothes; Dress and Undress
  7. Maintain Normal Body Temperature
  8. Keep the Body Clean
  9. Avoid Danger and Injury
  10. Communicate
  11. Worship Faith
  12. Work in a way that there is a sense of accomplishment
  13. Play or Participate in Various Recreations
  14. Learn, Discover and Satisfy Curiosity
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14 Components of the Nursing Need Theory
by Virginia Henderson

36
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Co-authored the fifth (1955) and sixth (1978) edition of Textbook of Principles and Practice of Nursing

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Virginia Henderson

37
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“The Basic Principles of Nursing” (ICN, 1960), a seminal nursing work
frequently likened to Florence Nightingale’s “Notes on Nursing,”

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Virginia Henderson

38
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“Nursing Studies Index” (ICN, 1963)

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Virginia Henderson

39
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  1. Nurses care for patients until they can care for themselves once again.
  2. Patients desire to return to health.
  3. Nurses are willing to serve and “Nurses will devote themselves to the patient day and night.”
  4. “Mind and Body are Inseparable and are Interrelated.”
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Assumptions on the Nursing Need Theory

40
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  1. Individual
  2. Environment
  3. Health
  4. Nursing
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Four Major Concepts of the Nursing Need Theory
by Virginia Henderson

41
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Have basic needs that are
component of health and require assistance to achieve health and
independence or a peaceful death

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Individual

42
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Society wants and expects the nurse’s service of acting for individuals who are unable to function independently

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Environment

43
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supportive _________ is conducive for health

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Environment

44
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Balance in all realms of human life

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Health

45
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Independence or Ability to Perform Activities without any Aid

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Health

46
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Good _____ is a challenge because it is affected by numerous factors such as age, cultural background, emotional
balance, and others.

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Health

47
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Key Persons in promoting health,
prevention of illness and being able to cure

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Nurses

48
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“The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.

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Virginia Henderson’s definition of Nursing

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▪Communicate with others in expressing emotions, needs, fears, and opinions
▪Learn, discover, or satisfy the curiosity that leads to normal development and health and use the available health facilities

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Psychological Aspects of Communicating and Learning

50
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Worship according to one’s faith

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Spiritual and Moral

51
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▪Work in such a way that there is a sense of accomplishment
▪Play or participate in various forms of recreation

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Sociologically Oriented to Occupation and Recreation

52
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Nursing : The Philosophy and Science of Caring

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Jean Watson

53
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An American Nurse Theorist and Nursing Professor

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Jean Watson

54
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Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring

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Jean Watson

55
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Nursing is Concerned with Promoting Health, Preventing Illness, Caring for the Sick and Restoring Health

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Nursing Model

56
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Caring is Central to Nursing Practice and Promotes Health Better Than a Simple Medical Practice

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Jean Watson

57
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Patient care encourages development; a loving atmosphere embraces a person for who they are and considers what they could develop into.

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Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring

58
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Her view holds that nurses may exhibit and practice compassion.

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Jean Watson

59
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  1. Human Being
  2. Health
  3. Nursing
  4. Environment/Society
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Four Major Concepts of Nursing
by Jean Watson

60
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Valuable individuals who should be looked after, respected, fostered, comprehended, and helped; in general, Watson described a person’s philosophical position as a fully developed complete self. The idea that a person is both greater than and unique from the sum of their components.

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Human Being

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A high level of general physical, mental, and social functioning

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Health

62
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A general adaptive-maintenance level of daily functioning

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Health

63
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The absence of sickness, or the existence of efforts that contribute
to the absence of illness.

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Health

64
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The study of people and how they interact with their health
and illnesses on a professional, personal, scientific, and ethical level.

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Nursing

65
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Specific Carative
Factors
critical to the caring human experience that need to be
addressed by nurses with their patients when in a caring role.

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Environment/Society

66
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  1. Forming humanistic-altruistic value systems
  2. Instilling faith-hope
  3. Cultivating a sensitivity to self and others
  4. Developing a helping-trust relationship
  5. Promoting an expression of feelings
  6. Using problem-solving for decision-making
  7. Promoting teaching-learning
  8. Promoting a supportive environment
  9. Assisting with the gratification of human needs
  10. Allowing for existential-phenomenological forces
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Carative Factors

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  1. Embrace (Loving-Kindness)
  2. Inspire (Faith-Hope)
  3. Trust (Transpersonal)
  4. Nurture (Relationship)
  5. Forgive (All)
  6. Deepen (Creative Self)
  7. Balance (Learning)
  8. Co-create ( Caritas Field)
  9. Minister (Humanity)
  10. Open (Infinity)
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Caritas Processes

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Need for Food, Elimination and
Ventilation

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Lower Order Biophysical Needs or Survival Needs

69
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Need for Activity, Inactivity and Sexuality

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Lower Order Psychophysical
Needs or Functional Needs

70
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Need for achievement and affiliation

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Higher Order Psychosocial
Needs or Integrative Needs

71
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Self-Actualization

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Higher Order
Intrapersonal - Interpersonal Need or Growth-Seeking Need

72
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The primary purpose of
this is to improve nursing practice and the quality of health of patients.

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Nursing Process

73
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▪Observation
▪Identification
▪Review of the Problem
▪Formulation of Hypothesis

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Assessment

74
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▪Formal Nursing Care Plan
- Standardized
- Individualized
▪Informal Nursing Care Plan

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Care Plan

75
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▪Implementation of the Care Plan
▪Data Collection

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Intervention

76
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▪Data Analysis
▪Interpretation of the Results
▪Additional Hypothesis

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Evaluation

77
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▪Assessment
▪Care Plan
▪Intervention
▪Evaluation

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Nursing Process