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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. When a nurse assists a patient to achieve desired goals such as promoting wellness - preventing disease and illness - restoring health - or facilitating coping with altered functioning - he/she is using Which part of the nursing process?
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Implementation.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Thought that is disciplined - comprehensive - based on intellectual standards - and - as a result - well reasoned; a systematic way to form and shape ones thinking that functions purposefully and exactingly.

2. Expected Outcomes
Dynamic.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
To help the nurse manage each patient's care scientifically - holistically - and creatively to promote wellness - prevent disease or illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered function.

3. Systematic
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Five - step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing - diagnosing - planning - implementing and evaluating. A systematic - client - centered - goal oriented method of delivering care.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.

4. Dynamic
No one step in the nursing process is a one - time phenomenon; each step flows into the next step. All five stages can occur almost simultaneously.
Dynamic.
Establish the Database: Nursing History - Physical Assessment - Review of patient record and nursing literature - consultation with patients support people and healthcare professionals. Continuously update the Database. Validate Data. Communicate Dat
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.

5. Intuitive Problem Solving
To help the nurse manage each patient's care scientifically - holistically - and creatively to promote wellness - prevent disease or illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered function.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Make a judgment about the patients health status - ability to manage his or her own healthcare - and need for nursing. Plan individualized holistic care that draws on patient strengths and is responsive to changes in the patients conditions.

6. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
Developing Accountability.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

7. How is the nursing process systematic?
Dynamic.
Each nursing task is a part of an ordered sequence of activities - and each activity depends on the accuracy of the activity that precedes it and influences the actions that follow it.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

8. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Systematically collect patient data (assessing) - clearly identify patient strengths and actual and potential problems (diagnosing) - develop a holistic plan of individualized care that specifies the desired patient goals and related outcomes and the
Concept mapping.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.

9. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Welcoming flashes of intuition as additions to logical reasoning - rather than as disruptions. Validating intuitions: When an intuition cannot be validated (when a nurse senses something is wrong with her patient although no signs) - careful monitori
Make a judgment about the patients health status - ability to manage his or her own healthcare - and need for nursing. Plan individualized holistic care that draws on patient strengths and is responsive to changes in the patients conditions.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.

10. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
Once nurses have a working knowledge of the nursing process - they can apply it to well or ill patients - young or old patients - in any type of practice setting.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Concept mapping.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

11. Decision Making
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Make a judgment about the patients health status - ability to manage his or her own healthcare - and need for nursing. Plan individualized holistic care that draws on patient strengths and is responsive to changes in the patients conditions.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.

12. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Whistle - blower.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Make a judgment about the patients health status - ability to manage his or her own healthcare - and need for nursing. Plan individualized holistic care that draws on patient strengths and is responsive to changes in the patients conditions.
Carry out the plan of care.

13. Concept Mapping
Five - step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing - diagnosing - planning - implementing and evaluating. A systematic - client - centered - goal oriented method of delivering care.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

14. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

15. Assess
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Establish the Database: Nursing History - Physical Assessment - Review of patient record and nursing literature - consultation with patients support people and healthcare professionals. Continuously update the Database. Validate Data. Communicate Dat

16. How is the adequacy of knowledge relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
It is important to judge whether the knowledge available to you is accurate - complete - and relevant. If you reason with false information or lack important data - it is impossible to draw a sound conclusion.

17. Scientific Problem Solving
Systematic problem - solving process that involves 1. Problem Identification. 2. Data collection. 3. Hypothesis formulation. 4. Plan of Action. 5. Hypothesis testing. 6. Interpretation of Results - and 7. Evaluation resulting in conclusion or revisio
The nursing process offers a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion - disease and illness prevention - health restoration - and coping with altered functioning that are most important t
Measurement of the extent to which the patient has achieved the goals specified in the plan of care; factors that positively or negatively influence goal achievement are identified - and the plan of care is terminated or revised.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

18. What are the goals of the nursing process?

19. What is the purpose of Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Practice a necessary skill until you feel confident in its execution before performing it on a patient. Take time to familiarize yourself with new equipment before using it in a clinical procedure. Identify nurses who are technical experts and ask th
Once nurses have a working knowledge of the nursing process - they can apply it to well or ill patients - young or old patients - in any type of practice setting.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

20. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p
Developing Accountability.
The nursing process offers a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion - disease and illness prevention - health restoration - and coping with altered functioning that are most important t
Systematic problem - solving process that involves 1. Problem Identification. 2. Data collection. 3. Hypothesis formulation. 4. Plan of Action. 5. Hypothesis testing. 6. Interpretation of Results - and 7. Evaluation resulting in conclusion or revisio

21. Standards for Critical Thinking
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Developing Accountability.
Practice a necessary skill until you feel confident in its execution before performing it on a patient. Take time to familiarize yourself with new equipment before using it in a clinical procedure. Identify nurses who are technical experts and ask th
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.

22. The Nursing Process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish
Measurement of the extent to which the patient has achieved the goals specified in the plan of care; factors that positively or negatively influence goal achievement are identified - and the plan of care is terminated or revised.
Systematically collect patient data (assessing) - clearly identify patient strengths and actual and potential problems (diagnosing) - develop a holistic plan of individualized care that specifies the desired patient goals and related outcomes and the
It is important to judge whether the knowledge available to you is accurate - complete - and relevant. If you reason with false information or lack important data - it is impossible to draw a sound conclusion.
Establish the Database: Nursing History - Physical Assessment - Review of patient record and nursing literature - consultation with patients support people and healthcare professionals. Continuously update the Database. Validate Data. Communicate Dat

23. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Five - step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing - diagnosing - planning - implementing and evaluating. A systematic - client - centered - goal oriented method of delivering care.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.

24. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
The nursing process offers a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion - disease and illness prevention - health restoration - and coping with altered functioning that are most important t
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Concept mapping.
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p

25. What is the third step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Each nursing task is a part of an ordered sequence of activities - and each activity depends on the accuracy of the activity that precedes it and influences the actions that follow it.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

26. Critical Thinking
The nursing process offers a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion - disease and illness prevention - health restoration - and coping with altered functioning that are most important t
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Thought that is disciplined - comprehensive - based on intellectual standards - and - as a result - well reasoned; a systematic way to form and shape ones thinking that functions purposefully and exactingly.
No one step in the nursing process is a one - time phenomenon; each step flows into the next step. All five stages can occur almost simultaneously.

27. Nursing Diagnoses
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Actual or potential health problem that an independent nursing intervention can prevent or resolve. Actual problem is present - Possible problem may be present - but more data are needed to confirm or disconfirm the problem. Potential problem may occ
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p

28. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Establish the Database: Nursing History - Physical Assessment - Review of patient record and nursing literature - consultation with patients support people and healthcare professionals. Continuously update the Database. Validate Data. Communicate Dat
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p

29. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Concept mapping.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

30. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

31. Critical Thinking Indicators
The nursing process offers a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion - disease and illness prevention - health restoration - and coping with altered functioning that are most important t
Carry out the plan of care.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

32. Evaluate
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Measurement of the extent to which the patient has achieved the goals specified in the plan of care; factors that positively or negatively influence goal achievement are identified - and the plan of care is terminated or revised.
Whistle - blower.

33. What interpersonal skill is displayed by a nurse who is attentive and responsive to the healthcare needs of individual patients and ensures the continuity of care when leaving the patient?
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Each nursing task is a part of an ordered sequence of activities - and each activity depends on the accuracy of the activity that precedes it and influences the actions that follow it.
Developing Accountability.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.

34. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Welcoming flashes of intuition as additions to logical reasoning - rather than as disruptions. Validating intuitions: When an intuition cannot be validated (when a nurse senses something is wrong with her patient although no signs) - careful monitori
The nursing process offers a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion - disease and illness prevention - health restoration - and coping with altered functioning that are most important t
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

35. The steps of the nursing process were legitimized in 1973 when the ANA Congress for Nursing Practice Developed What to guide nursing performance?
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Standards of Practice.
Dynamic.
It is important to judge whether the knowledge available to you is accurate - complete - and relevant. If you reason with false information or lack important data - it is impossible to draw a sound conclusion.

36. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
Practice a necessary skill until you feel confident in its execution before performing it on a patient. Take time to familiarize yourself with new equipment before using it in a clinical procedure. Identify nurses who are technical experts and ask th
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

37. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Practice a necessary skill until you feel confident in its execution before performing it on a patient. Take time to familiarize yourself with new equipment before using it in a clinical procedure. Identify nurses who are technical experts and ask th
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

38. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide nursing practice?
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Carry out the plan of care.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Dynamic.

39. Implement
Measure how well the patient has achieved desired outcomes. Identify factors that contribute to the patients success or failure. Modify the plan of care (if indicated).
Make a judgment about the patients health status - ability to manage his or her own healthcare - and need for nursing. Plan individualized holistic care that draws on patient strengths and is responsive to changes in the patients conditions.
Developing Accountability.
Carry out the plan of care.

40. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
There is a great interaction and overlapping among the five steps; no one step in the process is a one - time phenomenon; each step is fluid and flows into the next step.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Concept mapping.

41. Plan
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p
Establish the Database: Nursing History - Physical Assessment - Review of patient record and nursing literature - consultation with patients support people and healthcare professionals. Continuously update the Database. Validate Data. Communicate Dat
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
It is important to judge whether the knowledge available to you is accurate - complete - and relevant. If you reason with false information or lack important data - it is impossible to draw a sound conclusion.

42. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality nursing process?
Actual or potential health problem that an independent nursing intervention can prevent or resolve. Actual problem is present - Possible problem may be present - but more data are needed to confirm or disconfirm the problem. Potential problem may occ
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Practice a necessary skill until you feel confident in its execution before performing it on a patient. Take time to familiarize yourself with new equipment before using it in a clinical procedure. Identify nurses who are technical experts and ask th

43. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
Standards of Practice.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p

44. What characteristic of the nursing process is defined as a great deal of overlapping interaction among the five steps - with each step being fluid and flowing into the next step?
Carry out the plan of care.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Dynamic.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

45. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
Concept mapping.
Measurement of the extent to which the patient has achieved the goals specified in the plan of care; factors that positively or negatively influence goal achievement are identified - and the plan of care is terminated or revised.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.

46. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
Practice a necessary skill until you feel confident in its execution before performing it on a patient. Take time to familiarize yourself with new equipment before using it in a clinical procedure. Identify nurses who are technical experts and ask th
Thought that is disciplined - comprehensive - based on intellectual standards - and - as a result - well reasoned; a systematic way to form and shape ones thinking that functions purposefully and exactingly.
Carry out the plan of care.
Measure how well the patient has achieved desired outcomes. Identify factors that contribute to the patients success or failure. Modify the plan of care (if indicated).

47. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Measure how well the patient has achieved desired outcomes. Identify factors that contribute to the patients success or failure. Modify the plan of care (if indicated).
To help the nurse manage each patient's care scientifically - holistically - and creatively to promote wellness - prevent disease or illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered function.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

48. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Whistle - blower.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Standards of Practice.

49. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Five - step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing - diagnosing - planning - implementing and evaluating. A systematic - client - centered - goal oriented method of delivering care.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.

50. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
Five - step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing - diagnosing - planning - implementing and evaluating. A systematic - client - centered - goal oriented method of delivering care.
Measurement of the extent to which the patient has achieved the goals specified in the plan of care; factors that positively or negatively influence goal achievement are identified - and the plan of care is terminated or revised.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.