Unit 1-6 Flashcards
Cultural safety
Outcome of nursing education that enables safe care to be defined by those receiving it
Cultural sensitivity
Demonstrated by the nurse who accepts the legitimacy of difference and is capable of reflecting on the impact that their life experience and positional power on others
Cultural awareness
First step that nurse takes towards understanding that there is a difference
Assessment
Collection of data pertinent to the patient’s health status of situation
Diagnosis
Analyzes assessment data to determine key issues and make clinical judgements in the form of a nursing diagnosis
Why is the nursing diagnosis that important?
OK directs the plan of the care for the patient.
- identify outcomes for the patient, individualized to patient and current situation
Planning
Creation of a formal plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcome
Implementation
Providing health, teaching and help promotion, consulting with other healthcare providers, or providing medication’s.
Evaluation
Patient’s response to the selected interventions and determine whether interventions were effective
Diagnostic reasoning
Determining a patient’s health status after making physical and behavioural observations, and after assigning meaning to the behaviors, and symptoms exhibited by the patient
Clinical reasoning
The cognitive process of thinking about patient’s issues, making references, and deciding on the actions to be implemented
Clinical decision-making
Making focusses on defining patient problems or situations and selecting appropriate interventions
Medical diagnosis
-disease specific
-based on physical, medical history, and diagnostic
Nursing diagnosis
Judgement about clients response to actual or potential health
Example: risk for unstable blood sugar
Three types of NANDA nursing diagnosis
Actual, potential/risk, wellness/health
Risk nursing diagnosis
Issue or concern that could be prevent prevented with nursing intervention
-it’s not an issue yet
Actual diagnosis
Wellness or health promotion diagnosis
Level of wellness in a client, family or community that can be enhanced
-written as: readiness for enhance sleeping…