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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. Standards for Critical Thinking
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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).
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

2. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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.
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.

3. Scientific Problem Solving
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.
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
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.

4. What is the purpose of Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Concept mapping.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
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.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.

5. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide nursing practice?
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Carry out the plan of care.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

6. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
It is important to judge whether the knowledge available to you is accurate - complete - and relevant. If you reason with false information or lack important data - it is impossible to draw a sound conclusion.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

7. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

8. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Whistle - blower.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

9. Concept Mapping
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

10. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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.

11. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
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.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
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.

12. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality 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
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.
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.

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

14. 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.
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.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

15. How is the purpose of thinking relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
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.

16. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.

17. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
Concept mapping.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.

18. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Whistle - blower.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.

19. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
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.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Dynamic.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

20. Plan
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.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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
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.

21. Intuitive Problem Solving
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Carry out the plan of care.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

22. 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
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
Developing Accountability.
Standards of Practice.

23. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
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
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

24. Systematic
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Carry out the plan of 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.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

25. How is the nursing process systematic?
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
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.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

26. Implement
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of 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
Carry out the plan of care.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.

27. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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.
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

28. Dynamic
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
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.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Concept mapping.

29. What are the goals of the nursing process?

30. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
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.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.

31. 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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

32. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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.

33. 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?
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Developing Accountability.
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.

34. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
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.
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
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
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.

35. Nursing Process
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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.
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.

36. How is the nursing process dynamic?
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
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.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

37. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
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.
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
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

38. Decision Making
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
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.
Five - step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing - diagnosing - planning - implementing and evaluating. A systematic - client - centered - goal oriented method of delivering care.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.

39. 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
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.
Standards of Practice.

40. What are four areas a nurse should consider when seeking to develop a sense of legal and ethical accountability to a patient?
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
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Do I know my legal boundaries of my practice? Do I own my personal strengths and weaknesses and seek assistance as needed? Am I knowledgeable about - and respectful of patient rights? Does my documentation provide a legally defensible account of my p

41. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
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
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

42. Evaluate
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
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.

43. How is the adequacy of knowledge relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
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.

44. 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.
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.

45. Critical Thinking Indicators
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
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.

46. Critical Thinking
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired 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.

47. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Developing Accountability.
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.
Whistle - blower.

48. The Nursing Process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish
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).
Implementation.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
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

49. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your 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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
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.

50. When a nurse assists a patient to achieve desired goals such as promoting wellness - preventing disease and illness - restoring health - or facilitating coping with altered functioning - he/she is using Which part of the nursing process?
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
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Implementation.
Standards of Practice.