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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. Plan
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
Implementation.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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

2. 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?
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Developing Accountability.

3. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Whistle - blower.
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
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.

4. Standards for Critical Thinking
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.
Concept mapping.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

5. Assess
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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.

6. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.

7. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Developing Accountability.

8. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Concept mapping.

9. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
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
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Whistle - blower.

10. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
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.
Dynamic.
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.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.

11. Critical Thinking Indicators
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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.
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

12. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
Developing Accountability.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
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.
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).

13. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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

14. 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?
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
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
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Implementation.

15. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Concept mapping.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

16. Expected Outcomes
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.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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

17. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.

18. How is the nursing process systematic?
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

19. What are four areas a nurse should consider when seeking to develop a sense of legal and ethical accountability to a patient?
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Developing Accountability.
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
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

20. Implement
Carry out the plan of care.
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.
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
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

21. How is the purpose of thinking relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

22. Scientific Problem Solving
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
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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

23. Evaluate
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.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Implementation.
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.

24. The Nursing Process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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
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.
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.

25. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.

26. What are the goals of the nursing process?

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27. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
Concept mapping.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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.
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

28. 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?
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Implementation.
Dynamic.

29. How is the adequacy of knowledge relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
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.

30. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
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.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

31. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

32. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
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
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.

33. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
Developing Accountability.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

34. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

35. Concept Mapping
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
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.

36. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
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
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Concept mapping.

37. Decision Making
Carry out the plan of care.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
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).
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.

38. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality 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
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Standards of Practice.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

39. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
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
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Developing Accountability.

40. Systematic
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Whistle - blower.

41. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
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.
Carry out the plan of care.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

42. Dynamic
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
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).
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.

43. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Carry out the plan of care.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
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.

44. Nursing Diagnoses
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
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
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.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

45. How is the nursing process dynamic?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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.
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.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

46. 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.
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
Standards of Practice.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.

47. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
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.

48. The steps of the nursing process were legitimized in 1973 when the ANA Congress for Nursing Practice Developed What to guide nursing performance?
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.
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
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.
Standards of Practice.

49. Critical Thinking
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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.
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.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.

50. Nursing Process
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Whistle - blower.