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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
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.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

2. Nursing Diagnoses
Actual or potential health problem that an independent nursing intervention can prevent or resolve. Actual problem is present - Possible problem may be present - but more data are needed to confirm or disconfirm the problem. Potential problem may occ
Standards of Practice.
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
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

3. Critical Thinking
The nursing process offers a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion - disease and illness prevention - health restoration - and coping with altered functioning that are most important t
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.
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

4. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a 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).

5. What is the purpose of Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
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
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

6. 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.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Carry out the plan of care.

7. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
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.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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

8. Dynamic
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
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.
Dynamic.
No one step in the nursing process is a one - time phenomenon; each step flows into the next step. All five stages can occur almost simultaneously.

9. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.

10. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

11. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
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. Standards for Critical Thinking
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.
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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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.

13. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality nursing process?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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
Standards of Practice.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.

14. Intuitive Problem Solving
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

15. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
Carry out the plan of care.
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
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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

16. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
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.
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
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

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

18. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
Whistle - blower.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
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
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

19. Implement
Carry out the plan of care.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

20. Assess
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.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

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

22. 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.
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.
Concept mapping.

23. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
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.
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
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
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.

24. 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.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
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

25. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

26. Systematic
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.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Standards of Practice.

27. How is the nursing process systematic?
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
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
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Each nursing task is a part of an ordered sequence of activities - and each activity depends on the accuracy of the activity that precedes it and influences the actions that follow it.

28. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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.
Carry out the plan of care.

29. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Practice a necessary skill until you feel confident in its execution before performing it on a patient. Take time to familiarize yourself with new equipment before using it in a clinical procedure. Identify nurses who are technical experts and ask th
Dynamic.
Establish the Database: Nursing History - Physical Assessment - Review of patient record and nursing literature - consultation with patients support people and healthcare professionals. Continuously update the Database. Validate Data. Communicate Dat
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

30. The Nursing Process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
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.
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

31. Nursing Process
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.
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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

32. Evaluate
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
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.
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).

33. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
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.
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.
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
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

34. Concept Mapping
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.

35. What are the goals of the nursing process?

36. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Whistle - blower.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

37. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

38. The steps of the nursing process were legitimized in 1973 when the ANA Congress for Nursing Practice Developed What to guide nursing performance?
Standards of Practice.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

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?
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Dynamic.
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.

40. How is the adequacy of knowledge relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

41. Decision Making
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

42. How is the nursing process dynamic?
Each nursing task is a part of an ordered sequence of activities - and each activity depends on the accuracy of the activity that precedes it and influences the actions that follow it.
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.
Carry out the plan of care.
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

43. 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.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Standards of Practice.

44. Scientific Problem Solving
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
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

45. What is the purpose of Assessing 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.
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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Whistle - blower.

46. Expected Outcomes
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
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

47. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.

48. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
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

49. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide 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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Implementation.

50. What are four areas a nurse should consider when seeking to develop a sense of legal and ethical accountability to a patient?
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
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
Carry out the plan of care.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.