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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. Dynamic
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
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.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.

2. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Standards of Practice.
Dynamic.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

3. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Actual or potential health problem that an independent nursing intervention can prevent or resolve. Actual problem is present - Possible problem may be present - but more data are needed to confirm or disconfirm the problem. Potential problem may occ

4. 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
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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

5. Assess
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Dynamic.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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.

6. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
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
Standards of Practice.
Whistle - blower.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

7. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Dynamic.

8. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide nursing practice?
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

9. 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.
Implementation.
Developing Accountability.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

10. Intuitive Problem Solving
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.
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.

11. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

12. 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?
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Developing Accountability.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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.

13. Critical Thinking Indicators
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

14. 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
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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).

15. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.

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

17. Expected Outcomes
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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
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.

18. Standards for Critical 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
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.
Whistle - blower.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

19. What is the purpose of Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
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.

20. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
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
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.
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

21. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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.
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

22. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
Implementation.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Dynamic.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

23. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
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
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.

24. How is the adequacy of knowledge relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
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
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Standards of 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.

25. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

26. 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?
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.
Whistle - blower.
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
Implementation.

27. How is the nursing process systematic?
Whistle - blower.
Concept mapping.
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.
Implementation.

28. How is the purpose of thinking 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.
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
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
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.

29. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
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.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - 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.

30. What are four areas a nurse should consider when seeking to develop a sense of legal and ethical accountability to a patient?
Whistle - blower.
Implementation.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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

31. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
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.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

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

33. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical 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
Standards of Practice.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

34. 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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing 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).
Whistle - blower.

35. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
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 human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Concept mapping.

36. Systematic
Implementation.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Dynamic.

37. What are Activities with 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.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.

38. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Whistle - blower.
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
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

39. 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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Whistle - blower.

40. Decision Making
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Concept mapping.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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. 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?
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing 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.
Dynamic.
Standards of Practice.

42. Plan
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.

43. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

44. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.

45. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
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).
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
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

46. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Dynamic.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
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.

47. Implement
Implementation.
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.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

48. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
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.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Once nurses have a working knowledge of the nursing process - they can apply it to well or ill patients - young or old patients - in any type of practice setting.
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.

49. 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.
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
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.
Whistle - blower.

50. Evaluate
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
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
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.