test 2 Flashcards
Steps of nursing process in order
- Assessment
- Diagnosis (nursing)
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Systemic problem-solving process that guides all nursing actions
- Help nurse provide goal-directed, client centered care
Nursing Process
- Systemic gathering of data and ongoing process
- Categorizing data (cluster cues)
- Recording data
Assessment
- Identifying client’s actual or portentously health needs, problems, and strengths
- Pt’s response to their illness
Diagnosis
Data about client’s motivation, family, and available resources help you and the client formulate realistic goals
Planning
Decide goals you want to achieve with your nursing activities, keep pt in mind
Planning outcomes
Assess data to choose interventions to help the client achieve stated goals
Planning interventions
Putting plan into action and making sure pt is able to do it
- gather data by observing the client’s response as interventions are performed
Implementation
Types of nursing knowledge
Theoretical, Practical, Self, and Ethical
- Knowing “why”
- EBP facts/theories from nursing and other disciplines
- Understanding why you need to do something with research to back it up
Theoretical
Knowing “what to do and how to do it”
- basically what we’re doing in the skills lab
Practical
Knowing yourself and your beliefs, understanding your self
- Help decrease bias and errors in planning individual care
Self
Our obligation, knowing right from wrong
- Doing the right thing
Ethical
Assessment focused on disease and pathology; doctor does the orders
- Diseased process related
Medical diagnosis
- Assessment that focus on client’s response to illness
- Considered to be the symptoms, the nurse’s role is to make interventions to alleviate symptoms
Nursing diagnosis
The different types of assessment
Comprehensive, initial focused, and ongoing focused
Global, nursing/patient database, admission
Comprehensive assessment