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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. 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
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

2. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

3. Standards for Critical Thinking
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
To help the nurse manage each patient's care scientifically - holistically - and creatively to promote wellness - prevent disease or illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered function.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.

4. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
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.
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.

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

6. How is the nursing process systematic?
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Whistle - blower.
Implementation.
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.

7. How is the adequacy of knowledge relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Implementation.
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.

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

9. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
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.
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.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.

10. Assess
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

11. 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?
Carry out the plan of care.
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.
Implementation.

12. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Implementation.
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. What is the third step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
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.

14. 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.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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. 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?
Developing Accountability.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
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.

16. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide nursing practice?
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.

17. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

18. What are the goals of the nursing process?

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

20. Scientific Problem Solving
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
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

21. Implement
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.
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
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

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

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

24. 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.
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
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

25. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Implementation.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

26. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - 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
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

27. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
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).
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.
Dynamic.

28. What is the purpose of the 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.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - 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.

29. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
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).
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

30. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
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
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.

31. Dynamic
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
Carry out the plan of care.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your 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.

32. Concept Mapping
Concept mapping.
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
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

33. Systematic
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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
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.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.

34. 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?
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Dynamic.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
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

35. 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
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.
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

36. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
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
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.

37. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
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.

38. Plan
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

39. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
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
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.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.

40. Expected Outcomes
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

41. How is the purpose of thinking 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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

42. What are four areas a nurse should consider when seeking to develop a sense of legal and ethical accountability to a patient?
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
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
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

43. Critical Thinking Indicators
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.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Actual or potential health problem that an independent nursing intervention can prevent or resolve. Actual problem is present - Possible problem may be present - but more data are needed to confirm or disconfirm the problem. Potential problem may occ
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

44. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
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

45. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
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

46. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

47. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality nursing process?
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Carry out the plan of 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

48. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Whistle - blower.
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.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.

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

50. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Concept mapping.
Developing Accountability.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.