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Differentiate between a nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis, and collaborative problem.
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Nursing diagnosis= is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual and potential health problems or life processes.Medical diagnosis= is the identification of a disease condition based on a specific evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, the client's medical history, and the results of diagnostic tests and procedures.Collaborative problems= an actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a client's status
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Discuss the relationship of critical thinking to the nursing diagnostic process.
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Some of the conclusions lead to nursing diagnoses, whereas others do not. Diagnostic conclusions include problems treated primarily by nurses nursing diagnoses and problems requiring treatment by several disciplines
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Describe the steps of the nursing diagnostic process.
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Assessment
Diagnosis Planning Implementation Evaluation |
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Explain how defining characteristics and the etiological process individualize a nursing diagnosis.
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compare a client's pattern of data with data that are consistent with normal, healthful patterns. Use accepted norms as the basis for comparison and judgment. judge whether the grouped signs and symptoms are normal for the client and whether they are within the range of healthful responses.
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Explain the benefit of using the NANDA International nursing diagnoses in practice
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provides a common language for the health problems nurses deal with. The organization is the leader in nursing diagnosis classification
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Describe sources of diagnostic errors.
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Lack of knowledge or skill, Inaccurate data, Missing data, Disorganization, Inaccurate interpretation of cues, Failure to consider conflicting cues, Using an insufficient number of cues, Using unreliable or invalid cues, Failure to consider cultural influences or developmental stage
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