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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. Expected Outcomes
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

2. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
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.

3. What is the purpose of Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Implementation.
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
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
There is a great interaction and overlapping among the five steps; no one step in the process is a one - time phenomenon; each step is fluid and flows into the next step.

4. How is the nursing process dynamic?
There is a great interaction and overlapping among the five steps; no one step in the process is a one - time phenomenon; each step is fluid and flows into the next step.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.

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

6. 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.
Developing Accountability.
Dynamic.
Thought that is disciplined - comprehensive - based on intellectual standards - and - as a result - well reasoned; a systematic way to form and shape ones thinking that functions purposefully and exactingly.

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

8. Implement
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.
Implementation.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

9. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
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
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Carry out the plan of care.

10. Assess
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.

11. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Standards of Practice.
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
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

12. What are the characteristics 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
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

13. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.

14. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Whistle - blower.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
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.

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

16. 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
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Implementation.
Carry out the plan of care.

17. 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
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
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

18. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Standards of Practice.

19. Decision Making
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
There is a great interaction and overlapping among the five steps; no one step in the process is a one - time phenomenon; each step is fluid and flows into the next step.
Implementation.

20. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
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.

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

22. Intuitive Problem Solving
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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.

23. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Concept mapping.
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

24. Systematic
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
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.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

25. Evaluate
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.
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
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

26. What are Activities with Evaluating 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
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Measure how well the patient has achieved desired outcomes. Identify factors that contribute to the patients success or failure. Modify the plan of care (if indicated).
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.

27. Standards for Critical Thinking
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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.
Standards of Practice.

28. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
Developing Accountability.
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
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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

29. What is the third 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.
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.
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.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

30. Nursing Process
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.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
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.

31. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
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.
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.

32. What are Activities with Planning in the Nursing Process?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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 priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

33. Dynamic
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
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.
Implementation.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

34. Critical Thinking
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
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.
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
Measurement of the extent to which the patient has achieved the goals specified in the plan of care; factors that positively or negatively influence goal achievement are identified - and the plan of care is terminated or revised.

35. Critical Thinking Indicators
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Concept mapping.
Carry out the plan of care.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.

36. 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?
Carry out the plan of care.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Developing Accountability.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

37. What is the first step in developing a method of 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.
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
Developing Accountability.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

38. How is critique of judgments/decisions relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Systematically collect patient data (assessing) - clearly identify patient strengths and actual and potential problems (diagnosing) - develop a holistic plan of individualized care that specifies the desired patient goals and related outcomes and the

39. 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?
Dynamic.
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
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.

40. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
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
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
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

41. Plan
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Developing Accountability.

42. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
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
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
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
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

43. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.

44. Concept Mapping
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your 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.

45. What are the goals of the nursing process?

46. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
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.
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.
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.

47. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Carry out the plan of care.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

48. How is the nursing process systematic?
Each nursing task is a part of an ordered sequence of activities - and each activity depends on the accuracy of the activity that precedes it and influences the actions that follow it.
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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

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

50. Scientific Problem Solving
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Systematic problem - solving process that involves 1. Problem Identification. 2. Data collection. 3. Hypothesis formulation. 4. Plan of Action. 5. Hypothesis testing. 6. Interpretation of Results - and 7. Evaluation resulting in conclusion or revisio