Week 7: The Nursing Process and Critical Thinking Flashcards
What is Critical Thinking?
A reasoning process by which you use knowledge, reflect on previous experience, and integrate professional practice standards to provide competent, ethical nursing care.
The Nursing Process ADPIE
- Evidence informed pratice, multiple ways of knowing
- Gather new knowlege
- Review existsing knowlege
- Reflect
- Course action
What are the requirements for Critical Thinking?
Ability to ask questions, be well informed, be honest in facing personal biases, willingness to reconsider and think differently about issues, analyticity, and maturity.
What are the components of Critical Thinking?
Specific knowledge base to think critically, multiple ways of knowing, admitting what they don’t know, and acquiring knowledge to make correct decisions.
What is the Nursing Process?
A systematic process that fosters critical thinking and optimizes client care outcomes, consisting of Assessment, Nursing Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADPIE).
Nurses make choices based on:
1. Nursing process
2. CRNA standrads
3. reflection
What is the first step in the Critical Thinking Approach to Assessment?
A systematic approach of data from a variety of sources, enabling nurses to have a broader perspective.
- Ask questions, take history, blood , ask team
What types of data are collected in the assessment?
Objective Data (observable signs) so what you as a nurse obsereve like color, temperature, pain, blood pressure, heart rate
and Subjective Data (client-reported symptoms).so subjective reports like my heart is racing
What is involved in Step 2: Nursing Diagnosis?
Review gathered data, analyze it, and cluster similar symptoms to identify problems.
Acute abdominal pain
What is Step 3: Planning of Care?
Involves the client, prioritizing care based on the client’s changing condition.
ABC pain
what can be done first ?
priotities can alter
What happens in Step 4: Implementation?
Interventions are put into action, matching the goals of the client, including care, teaching, and preventive measures.
What is Step 5: Evaluation?
The final step that involves collecting data related to outcomes, relating nursing actions to client goals, and drawing conclusions about problem status.
Assessment with evulation
How is evaluation characterized in nursing?
Evaluation is an ongoing continuous process, dynamic, and involves collaboration.
nurses gather subjetive data from paitents and objective data from health team
How does the nursing process apply to disease management?
The nursing process is easily applied to frameworks for managing patients living with various diseases.
ADPIE
Assessment
Nursing Diagnosis
Implementation
Evaultion
