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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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

2. How is the nursing process systematic?
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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
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.

3. Dynamic
Measurement of the extent to which the patient has achieved the goals specified in the plan of care; factors that positively or negatively influence goal achievement are identified - and the plan of care is terminated or revised.
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.
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).
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

4. The Nursing Process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish
Dynamic.
Whistle - blower.
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
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

5. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide nursing practice?
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.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Whistle - blower.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

7. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
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.
Concept mapping.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

8. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
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.
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
Whistle - blower.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.

9. 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?
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
Dynamic.
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.
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

10. How is the purpose of thinking relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Dynamic.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

11. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Whistle - blower.
Dynamic.

12. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Developing Accountability.
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

13. What are Activities with Assessing in the Nursing Process?
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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
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.
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.

14. Scientific 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
Whistle - blower.
Developing Accountability.
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

15. Systematic
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
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.

16. Standards for Critical Thinking
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.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

17. What are the goals of the nursing process?

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18. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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 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
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.

19. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality nursing process?
Establish the Database: Nursing History - Physical Assessment - Review of patient record and nursing literature - consultation with patients support people and healthcare professionals. Continuously update the Database. Validate Data. Communicate Dat
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
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

20. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
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.
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.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

21. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
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
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Welcoming flashes of intuition as additions to logical reasoning - rather than as disruptions. Validating intuitions: When an intuition cannot be validated (when a nurse senses something is wrong with her patient although no signs) - careful monitori
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

22. What is the purpose of Diagnosing in 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
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.

23. 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?
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Developing Accountability.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

24. How is the adequacy of knowledge relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
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.
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.
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
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

25. What is the third step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
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.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

26. Concept Mapping
Developing Accountability.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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.

27. Nursing Process
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing 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.
Developing Accountability.

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

29. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
It is important to judge whether the knowledge available to you is accurate - complete - and relevant. If you reason with false information or lack important data - it is impossible to draw a sound conclusion.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
Implementation.

30. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the 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.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of 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.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.

31. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
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.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

32. The steps of the nursing process were legitimized in 1973 when the ANA Congress for Nursing Practice Developed What to guide nursing performance?
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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).
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Standards of Practice.

33. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
Dynamic.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.

34. Critical Thinking Indicators
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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.

35. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
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.
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).
Carry out the plan of care.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.

36. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
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.
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.

37. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
Five - step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing - diagnosing - planning - implementing and evaluating. A systematic - client - centered - goal oriented method of delivering care.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
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.

38. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.

39. What is the first step in developing a method of critical 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.
Whistle - blower.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

40. How is the nursing process dynamic?
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
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

41. Trial - and - Error Problem Solving
Implementation.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.

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

43. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

44. 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?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Implementation.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.

45. Critical Thinking
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).
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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.

46. Nursing Diagnoses
Actual or potential health problem that an independent nursing intervention can prevent or resolve. Actual problem is present - Possible problem may be present - but more data are needed to confirm or disconfirm the problem. Potential problem may occ
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.

47. Assess
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience - knowledge and skill that makes expert decision making possible.
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.

48. What is the purpose of Assessing in the Nursing Process?
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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.
Dynamic.

49. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
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.
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.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.

50. Implement
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
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.
Carry out the plan of care.