Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
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.
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.


2. 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.
Developing Accountability.
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.


3. Standards for Critical Thinking
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing 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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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.


4. Critical Thinking Indicators
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.


5. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
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


6. Nursing Process
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.
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
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.


7. Implement
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Dynamic.
Carry out the plan of care.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.


8. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Standards of Practice.


9. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
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
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.


10. Nursing Diagnoses
Dynamic.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
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


11. The Nursing Process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Whistle - blower.
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.
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


12. How is the purpose of thinking relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Concept mapping.


13. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
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.
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.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.


14. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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.


15. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Developing Accountability.
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.
Concept mapping.


16. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
Carry out the plan of care.
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.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.


17. How is the nursing process systematic?
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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.


18. Scientific Problem Solving
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Dynamic.
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
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


19. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
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.
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).


20. Decision Making
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.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.


21. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
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).


22. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.


23. 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.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Standards of Practice.


24. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
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.
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
Whistle - blower.


25. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Concept mapping.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.


26. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
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
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.


27. What are four areas a nurse should consider when seeking to develop a sense of legal and ethical accountability to a patient?
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.


28. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
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
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.


29. Systematic
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.


30. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide nursing practice?
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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


31. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
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.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.


32. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
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


33. What are the goals of the nursing process?


34. Dynamic
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
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
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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.


35. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
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
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
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


36. What is the purpose of Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Developing Accountability.
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.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.


37. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Concept mapping.


38. Assess
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.


39. 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.
Dynamic.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.


40. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Carry out the plan of care.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.


41. Concept Mapping
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.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Whistle - blower.


42. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
Dynamic.
Developing Accountability.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.


43. Expected Outcomes
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.
Concept mapping.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.


44. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
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.
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.
Implementation.


45. Intuitive Problem Solving
Concept mapping.
Implementation.
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
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.


46. Critical Thinking
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
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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.
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.


47. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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.
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


48. Plan
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.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.


49. What is the third step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.


50. 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?
Implementation.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Whistle - blower.
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.