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Nursing 101 Fundamentals 2

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1. What are Activities with Planning 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.
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.
Standards of Practice.

2. Assess
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Carry out the plan of care.
Dynamic.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

3. What are four good habits nurses should develop to help them master the manual competencies essential to quality 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
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
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
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.

4. Scientific Problem Solving
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
The nursing process offers a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion - disease and illness prevention - health restoration - and coping with altered functioning that are most important t
Systematic problem - solving process that involves 1. Problem Identification. 2. Data collection. 3. Hypothesis formulation. 4. Plan of Action. 5. Hypothesis testing. 6. Interpretation of Results - and 7. Evaluation resulting in conclusion or revisio
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

5. Standards for Critical Thinking
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - 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.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

6. What is the second step in developing a method of critical thinking?
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.
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
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.

7. Which group legitimized the steps of the nursing process in 1973 by developing standards of practice to guide 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
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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.

8. Systematic
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
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
Concept mapping.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.

9. What are the goals of the nursing process?

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

11. 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.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.

12. 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.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.
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.

13. A nurse who reports his/her employer's violation of law to law enforcement agencies outside the employers facilities is termed a
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Whistle - blower.
Developing Accountability.

14. 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.
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a conclusion.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.

15. How is the nursing process universally applicable?
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
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.
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.

16. 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?
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Developing Accountability.
Dynamic.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.

17. How is the nursing process dynamic?
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
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.
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.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

18. Critical Thinking Indicators
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.
CTIs - evidence - based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge - characteristics - and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice.
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

19. How are helpful resources relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
Established patient goals to prevent - reduce - or resolve the problems identified in the nursing diagnoses and determination of related nursing interventions.
Wise professionals are quick to recognize their limits and seek help in remedying their deficiencies.
Whistle - blower.
Establish the Database: Nursing History - Physical Assessment - Review of patient record and nursing literature - consultation with patients support people and healthcare professionals. Continuously update the Database. Validate Data. Communicate Dat

20. What is the purpose of Implementing in the Nursing Process?
Implementation.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
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
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. What are obstacles to Critical Thinking?
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.
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.

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

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

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

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

26. 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
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.
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.
Instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphicallly display and link key concepts.

27. 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.
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
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and dynamic.
Potential Problems - Identifying and flagging - remedy the pitfalls to sound reasoning.

28. The Nursing Process provides a framework that enables the nurse and patient to accomplish
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.
Universally applicable - outcome oriented - interpersonal - systematic - and 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

29. What traits help nurses develop the attitudes and dispositions to think critically?
Establish priorities. Write outcomes - and develop an evaluative strategy. Select nursing interventions. Communicate plan of nursing care.
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
Whistle - blower.
Interpret and analyze patient data - Identify patient strengths and health problems. Formulate and validate nursing diagnoses. Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses.

30. How is critique of judgments/decisions 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.
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).
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

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

32. What are Activities with Evaluating in the Nursing Process?
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).
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.
Developing Accountability.

33. How is the nursing process goal oriented?
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
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
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.

34. What are the characteristics of the Nursing Process?
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.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
Method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problems.

35. Nursing Diagnoses
Ultimately you must identify alternative judgments or decisions - weigh their merits - and reach a 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.
Clear - precise - specific - accurate - relevant - plausible - consistent - logical - deep - broad - complete - significant - adequate (for the purpose) - and fair.
Actual or potential health problem that an independent nursing intervention can prevent or resolve. Actual problem is present - Possible problem may be present - but more data are needed to confirm or disconfirm the problem. Potential problem may occ

36. What is the first step in developing a method of critical thinking?
Developing Accountability.
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.
Establish the Database: Nursing History - Physical Assessment - Review of patient record and nursing literature - consultation with patients support people and healthcare professionals. Continuously update the Database. Validate Data. Communicate Dat
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

37. Plan
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.
Dynamic.
Developing Accountability.

38. What are Activities with Assessing 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.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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

39. What is the instructional strategy that requires learners to identify - graphically display and link key concepts?
Concept mapping.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
Standards of Practice.
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

40. How is the nursing process systematic?
Implementation.
Assist patient to achieve desired outcomes -- promote wellness - prevent disease and illness - restore health - and facilitate coping with altered functioning.
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
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.

41. What are the benefits of Nursing Process?
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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.
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.
Continuity - collaboration - and enhanced patient outcomes.

42. What do Advocates or Intuition recommend?
Specific - measurable criteria used to evaluate whether the patient goal has been met.
An ordered sequence of activities. Each activity depends on the accuracy of the previous activity - and influences the actions that follow it.
The nursing process offers a means for nurses and patients to work together to identify specific goals related to wellness promotion - disease and illness prevention - health restoration - and coping with altered functioning that are most important t
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

43. Dynamic
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.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.
Purpose of thinking - Identify the purpose or goal of your thinking.

44. What is the purpose of the Nursing Process?
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
Medical diagnosis - nursing diagnosis - and all pertinent clinical data.

45. How is the nursing process interpersonal?
Thinking independently - being intellectually humble - and being curious and persevering.
The human being is always at the heart of nursing. The nursing process ensures that nurses are patient centered rather than task centered.
Dynamic.
Organize data - formal statement of strategies - efficient - aides in delivery of care that is holistic - goal oriented and individualized.

46. What is the purpose of Assessing 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.
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.
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.

47. Nursing Process
Whistle - blower.
Concept mapping.
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.
Carry out the plan of care.

48. How is the purpose of thinking relevant to the successful use of critical thinking competencies?
American Nurses Association Congress for Nursing Practice.
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.
This helps to discipline thinking by keeping all thoughts directed to the goal.
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).

49. Intuitive Problem Solving
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
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.
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.

50. What are the skills necessary to use the nursing process?
To systematically and continuously collect - validate - and communicate patient data.
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.
Adequacy of Knowledge - Judgment if you have accurate - complete - factual - timely - and relevant information.
Intellectual - technical - interpersonal - and ethical/legal skills as well as the willingness to use these skills creatively when working with patients.