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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. Assess
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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Developing Accountability.

2. What is the purpose of Assessing 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
Concept mapping.
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.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

3. 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.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
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.
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.

4. How is the adequacy of knowledge relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.

5. What are Activities with Assessing in the 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
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.
Implementation.

6. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Dynamic.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
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
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.

7. Expected Outcomes
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Implementation.
Carry out the plan of care.

8. Plan
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.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.

9. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
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.
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
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).
Dynamic.

10. How is the nursing process dynamic?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
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.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and 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.

11. Systematic
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
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
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.

12. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Measure how well the patient has achieved desired outcomes. Identify factors that contribute to the patients success or failure. Modify the plan of care (if indicated).
Welcoming flashes of intuition as additions to logical reasoning - rather than as disruptions. Validating intuitions: When an intuition cannot be validated (when a nurse senses something is wrong with her patient although no signs) - careful monitori

13. What is the second step in developing a method of 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.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and 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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

14. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
Developing Accountability.
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.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.

15. How is the nursing process systematic?
Whistle - blower.
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.
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

16. 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
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.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

17. How is the purpose of thinking relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of 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.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.

18. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide nursing practice?
Implementation.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Carry out the plan of care.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.

19. What is the purpose of Planning in the Nursing Process?
Implementation.
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
Developing Accountability.

20. Decision Making
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.

21. What is the purpose of Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
Develop a prioritized list of the nursing diagnoses.
Whistle - blower.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

22. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Standards of Practice.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
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.

23. 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.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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.

24. Nursing Diagnoses
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.
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
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

25. Concept Mapping
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
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.

26. 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.
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.
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

27. Dynamic
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
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
Making assumptions - personal biases - habits and routines - anxiety - pressure and deadlines - lack of confidence - pride.
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.

28. 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.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
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
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.

29. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.

30. Implement
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
Carry out the plan of care.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

31. Evaluate
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
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.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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

32. What are four areas a nurse should consider when seeking to develop a sense of legal and ethical accountability to a patient?
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
Developing Accountability.
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
Implementation.

33. What are Activities with Planning in 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.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.

34. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
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

35. 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.
Concept mapping.
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.
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

36. What is the third step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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
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.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
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

37. Scientific Problem Solving
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
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.
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

38. What are Activities with Diagnosing in the Nursing Process?
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.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

39. 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.
Whistle - blower.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.

40. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
Implementation.
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.
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
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

41. Critical Thinking Indicators
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.
Implementation.
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

42. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Develop an individualized plan of nursing care. Identify patient strenghts that can be tapped to facilitate achievement of desired outcomes.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Whistle - blower.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

43. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
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.

44. 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?
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).
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.
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

45. 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.
Purposeful - goal - directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives.
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
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.

46. 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
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of 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
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).

47. The three important ideas that must be linked together during clinical planning are
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.
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.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.

48. What is the first 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.
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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.
Concept mapping.

49. 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?
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
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
Implementation.

50. What are the goals of the nursing process?