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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. Standards for Critical Thinking
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

2. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Whistle - blower.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.

3. Nursing Diagnoses
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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
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

4. Nursing Process
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
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
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.
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.

5. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
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
Implementation.
Concept mapping.

6. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
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.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.

7. Plan
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

8. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Dynamic.
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.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.

9. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly 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
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
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

10. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
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
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.
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).

11. Systematic
Developing Accountability.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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.

12. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
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.
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.

13. Critical Thinking Indicators
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.

14. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Whistle - blower.
Carry out the plan of care.

15. Assess
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Concept mapping.

16. What is the third step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
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
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.

17. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
Whistle - blower.
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.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

18. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Dynamic.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
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.

19. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

20. Expected Outcomes
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.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.

21. Scientific Problem Solving
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.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical 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

22. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

23. 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.
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.
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

24. 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
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
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.

25. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

26. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Concept mapping.
Implementation.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.

27. 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.
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
Implementation.

28. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
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
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.

29. Critical Thinking
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.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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

30. How is the purpose of thinking relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
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.
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
Implementation.

31. 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?
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.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
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
Developing Accountability.

32. How is the nursing process systematic?
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.
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
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

33. The Nursing Process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish
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 a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
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

34. What are the goals of the nursing process?

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35. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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).
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

36. Concept Mapping
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.
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 priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.

37. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
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.
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
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.

38. Implement
Carry out the plan of care.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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.
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.

39. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
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
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
Standards of Practice.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

40. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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.
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.

41. 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?
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
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.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Implementation.

42. Decision Making
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.
Implementation.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.

43. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
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.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

44. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
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.
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.
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.

45. The steps of the nursing process were legitimized in 1973 when the ANA Congress for Nursing Practice Developed What to guide nursing performance?
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Standards of Practice.
Developing Accountability.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.

46. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality nursing process?
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Whistle - blower.
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
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.

47. 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.
Dynamic.
Standards of Practice.
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

48. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
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
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.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.

49. How is the nursing process dynamic?
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
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.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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.

50. Evaluate
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
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.