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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. Assess
Developing Accountability.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.

2. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Once nurses have a working knowledge of the nursing process - they can apply it to well or ill patients - young or old patients - in any type of practice setting.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

3. What is the third step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Standards of Practice.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

4. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide nursing practice?
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

5. Implement
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
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Carry out the plan of care.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.

6. 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.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

7. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

8. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
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

9. What is the first step in developing a method of critical 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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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.

10. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
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 an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
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

11. How is the nursing process systematic?
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Each nursing task is a part of an ordered sequence of activities - and each activity depends on the accuracy of the activity that precedes it and influences the actions that follow it.
Standards of Practice.

12. Scientific Problem Solving
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.
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
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Carry out the plan of care.

13. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
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.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.

14. What is the purpose of Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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.
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.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.

15. Critical Thinking Indicators
Dynamic.
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
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

16. 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.
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.

17. Decision Making
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.
Implementation.
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.

18. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
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.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

19. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
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.
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

20. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
Standards of 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.
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).
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

21. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.

22. Concept Mapping
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

23. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
Implementation.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical 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
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

24. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

25. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
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.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and 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
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.

26. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
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
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.
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

27. How is the nursing process dynamic?
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

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

29. Plan
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.

30. 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.
Carry out the plan of care.
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
Dynamic.

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

32. How is the purpose of thinking relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
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.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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.

33. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Concept mapping.
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

34. What are the goals of the nursing process?

35. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
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

36. 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.
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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

37. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
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.
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).

38. 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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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.
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

39. Nursing Diagnoses
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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
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

40. Systematic
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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.

41. 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?
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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.
Implementation.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

42. Nursing Process
Developing Accountability.
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.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.

43. Critical Thinking
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.
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.
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.

44. 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
Whistle - blower.
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
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.

45. 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.
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.
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.

46. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Developing Accountability.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

47. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality nursing process?
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Implementation.
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. Intuitive Problem Solving
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of 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.
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
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

49. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Implementation.
Whistle - blower.
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.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

50. Standards for Critical Thinking
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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.