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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality nursing process?
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Concept mapping.
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
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.

2. What are the goals of the nursing process?

3. 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.
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).
Concept mapping.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.

4. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Implementation.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.

5. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
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.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Dynamic.

6. 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.
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.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.

7. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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

8. Systematic
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - 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.
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.

9. Critical Thinking
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

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

11. 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.
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.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.

12. Implement
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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Carry out the plan of care.
Standards of Practice.

13. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Developing Accountability.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

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?
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
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
Implementation.
Developing Accountability.

15. 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
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Concept mapping.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.

16. 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?
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Developing Accountability.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.

17. How is the nursing process systematic?
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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.
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.
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.

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

19. Intuitive Problem Solving
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
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

20. Assess
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
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.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.

21. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

22. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
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.
Whistle - blower.
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).
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

23. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide nursing practice?
Dynamic.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Concept mapping.

24. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Implementation.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Whistle - blower.

25. Critical Thinking Indicators
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
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Standards of Practice.
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

26. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
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.
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
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

27. Evaluate
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical 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.
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.
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.

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

29. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Implementation.
Standards of Practice.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.

30. Expected Outcomes
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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.
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.

31. 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?
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.
Dynamic.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

32. 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
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.
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.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

33. 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.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

34. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your 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.
Concept mapping.

35. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

36. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

37. 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.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.

38. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Carry out the plan of care.
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.
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 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.
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
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.

40. What are the skills necessary to use the 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
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

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

42. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Developing Accountability.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

43. Standards for Critical Thinking
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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.

44. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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

45. Nursing Process
Standards of Practice.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
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.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

46. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
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.
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.
Standards of Practice.
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.

47. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.

48. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
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.
Whistle - blower.
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

49. 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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
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.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

50. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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.