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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
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
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
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

2. Standards for Critical Thinking
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

3. Implement
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Carry out the plan of 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.

4. Intuitive Problem Solving
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
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.

5. Concept Mapping
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Five - step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing - diagnosing - planning - implementing and evaluating. A systematic - client - centered - goal oriented method of delivering care.
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p

6. 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.
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

7. The steps of the nursing process were legitimized in 1973 when the ANA Congress for Nursing Practice Developed What to guide nursing performance?
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
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
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
Standards of Practice.

8. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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 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

9. Nursing Diagnoses
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.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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

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

11. The Nursing Process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish
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.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
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

12. Scientific Problem Solving
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Make a judgment about the patients health status - ability to manage his or her own healthcare - and need for nursing. Plan individualized holistic care that draws on patient strengths and is responsive to changes in the patients conditions.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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

13. 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?
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Dynamic.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.

14. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
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.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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.

15. 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
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
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.
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

16. Assess
Carry out the plan of 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.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.

17. What are four areas a nurse should consider when seeking to develop a sense of legal and ethical accountability to a patient?
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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.

18. Evaluate
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 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
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.

19. 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?
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.
Implementation.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.

20. How is the nursing process dynamic?
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.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Concept mapping.

21. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Concept mapping.
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.
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.

22. Decision Making
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

23. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
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).
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.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.

24. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.

25. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
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.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

26. Expected Outcomes
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
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.
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.

27. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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.

28. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
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.
Carry out the plan of care.
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.

29. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
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.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.

30. What is the third step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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.
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

31. Nursing Process
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
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
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.

32. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
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

33. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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

34. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality nursing process?
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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
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
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.

35. What is the purpose of the 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
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

36. What are the goals of the nursing process?

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37. 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.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
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.

38. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
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.
Carry out the plan of care.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

39. Critical Thinking Indicators
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Measurement of the extent to which the patient has achieved the goals specified in the plan of care; factors that positively or negatively influence goal achievement are identified - and the plan of care is terminated or revised.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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.

40. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
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.
Carry out the plan of care.

41. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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

42. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
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

43. 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.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.

44. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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
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.

45. Critical Thinking
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.
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.
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.

46. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Five - step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing - diagnosing - planning - implementing and evaluating. A systematic - client - centered - goal oriented method of delivering care.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Dynamic.

47. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
Implementation.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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).
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

48. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
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.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
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

49. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
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.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Carry out the plan of care.

50. How is the adequacy of knowledge 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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical 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.