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16 Cards in this Set
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Planning is
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the process of designing nursing activities required to prevent, reduce, or eliminate a client’s health problems.
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Planning involves
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the nurse, the client, support persons, and other caregivers.
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Shorter acute care hospitalization
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careful discharge planning.
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Standardized care plans should be
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adapted and used with individualized plans to meet individual client needs.
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The nursing care plan provides
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direction for individualized care of the client.
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The planning process includes
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setting diagnostic priorities, establishing client goals/desired outcomes, selecting nursing interventions, and writing individualized nursing interventions on the care plan.
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The nurse consults with other nurses or health professionals to
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verify information, implement changes, or obtain additional knowledge to aid in client goals.
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Nursing diagnoses are assigned
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high, medium, and low priorities in consultation with the client, if health permits.
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Client goals/desired outcomes are
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used to plan nursing interventions that will achieve anticipated changes in the client.
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A taxonomy of nursing outcome statements, the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)
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has been developed to describe measurable states, behaviors, or perceptions that respond to nursing interventions. Each as a definition, a measuring scale and indicators.
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Desired outcomes describe
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specific and measurable client responses and help the nurse evaluate the effectiveness of the nursing interventions.
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Client goals/desired outcomes are derived from
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the first clause of the nursing diagnosis.
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Goal statements and desired outcomes are
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written in terms of the client's behavior.
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Nursing interventions are focused on
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the etiology or second clause of the nursing diagnosis.
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Independent nursing interventions are
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those the nurse is licensed to prescribe or delegate.
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Projecting the consequences of each nursing strategy requires
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nursing knowledge and experience.
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