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53 Cards in this Set
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What is creativity?
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thinking that results in the development of new ideas and products
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What is critical analysis?
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a set of questions one can apply to a particular situation or idea to determine essential information and ideas and discard superfluous information and ideas
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What is decision making?
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the process of establishing criteria by which alternative courses of action are developed and selected
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What is critical thinking?
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a cognitive process that includes creativity, problem solving, and decision making
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What is deductive reasoning
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making specific observations from a generalization
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What is INDUCTIVE reasoning?
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making generalizations from specific data
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What is INTUITION?
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the understanding or learning of things without the conscious use of reasoning
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What is the NURSING PROCESS?
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a systematic rational method of planning and providing nursing care
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What is PROBLEM SOLVING?
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obtaining information that clarifies the nature of the problem and suggests possible solutions
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What is SOCRATIC QUESTIONING?
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a technique one can use to look beneath the surface, recognize and examine assumptions, search for inconsistencies, examine multiple points of view, and differentiate what one knows from what one merely believes
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What is ASSESSING?
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the process of collecting, organizing, validating, and recording data about a client's health status.
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What is PLANNING?
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an ongoing process that involves assessing, establishing goals, developing a plan of action, determines deadlines, describes how outcomes are to be achieved and evaluated.
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What is IMPLEMENTING?
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the phase of the nursing process in which the nursing care plan is put into action.
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What is EVALUATING?
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a planned, ongoing, purposeful activity in which clients and health care professionals compare expected outcomes and actual outcomes.
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what is a DIRECTIVE INTERVIEW?
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a highly structured interview that uses closed questions to elicit specific information
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What is a NONDIRECTIVE INTERVIEW?
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an interview using open-ended questions and empathetic responses to build rapport and learn client concerns.
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What are OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS?
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questions that specify only a broad topic and invite clients to explore thoughts and feelings about the topic.
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What is a NURSING DIAGNOSIS?
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the nurse's clinical judgment about responses to actual and potential health problems to provide the basis for selecting interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable.
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What is a WELLNESS DIAGNOSIS?
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describes human responses to levels of wellness that have a readiness for enhancement.
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What is a RISK DIAGNOSIS?
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clinical judgment that a problem does not exist, but he presence of risk factors indicates a problem is likely to develop unless nurse intervene.
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what is a POSSIBLE DIAGNOSIS?
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one in which evidence about a health problem is incomplete or unclear.
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What is a SYNDROME DIAGNOSIS?
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a diagnosis that is associated with a cluster of other diagnoses
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What is a DIAGNOSTIC LABEL?
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a title used in writing a nursing diagnosis taken from the NANDA standardized taxonomy of terms
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What are DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS?
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client signs and symptoms that must be present to validate a nursing diagnosis.
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What is an ETIOLOGY?
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the casual relationship between a problem and its related factors.
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What is NANDA?
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North American Nursing Diagnosis Association.
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What does CEPHALOCAUDAL mean?
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proceeding in the direction from head to toe.
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What are CLOSED QUESTIONS?
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restrictive questions requiring only a short answer.
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What is COVERT DATA?
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information (data) apparent only to the person affected that can be described or verified only by that person.
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What are CUES?
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any piece of information or data that influences decisions.
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What is DATA?
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information
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What are INFERENCES?
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interpretations or conclusions made based on cues or observed data.
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What is an INTERVIEW?
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a planned communication; a conversation with a purpose.
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What is a LEADING QUESTION?
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a question that influences the client to give a particular answer.
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What is a NEUTRAL QUESTION?
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a question that does not direct or pressure a client to answer in a certain way.
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What is OBJECTIVE DATA?
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information (data) that is detectable by an observer or can be tested against an accepted standard; can be seen, heard, felt, or smelled.
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What is OVERT DATA?
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see OBJECTIVE DATA: information (data) that is detectable by an observer or can be tested against an accepted standard; can be seen, heard, felt, or smelled.
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What is RAPPORT?
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a relationship between two or more people of mutual trust and understanding.
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What is a REVIEW OF SYSTEMS?
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a SCREENING EXAMINATION
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What is a SCREENING EXAMINATION?
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a review of bodily systems, a brief review of essential functioning of various body parts or systems.
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What are SIGNS?
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see OVERT DATA
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What is SUBJECTIVE DATA?
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data (information) that is apparent only to the person affected; can be described or verified only by that person.
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What are SYMPTOMS?
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see COVERT DATA or SUBJECTIVE DATA.
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What is VALIDATION?
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the determination that the diagnosis accuratley reflects the problem of the client, that the methods used for data gathering were appropriate, and that the conclusion or diagnosis is justified by the data.
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What are DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS?
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client signs and symptoms that must be present to validate a nursing diagnosis.
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What are DEPENDENT FUNCTIONS?
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with regard to medical diagnosis, physician-prescribed therapies and treatments nurses are obligated to carry out.
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What is a DIAGNOSIS?
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a statement or conclusion concerning the nature of some phenomenon.
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What are INDEPENDENT FUNCTIONS?
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an activity that the nurse is licensed to initiate as a result of the nurse's own knowledge and skills.
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What is a NORM?
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an ideal or fixed standard; an expected standard of behavior of group members.
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What is PES FORMAT?
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the three essential components of nursing diagnostic statements inculding the terms describing the problem, the etiology of the problem, and the defining characteristics or cluster of signs and symptoms.
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What are QUALIFIERS?
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words that have been added to some NANDA labels to give additional meaning to the diagnostic statement.
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What is a STANDARD?
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a generally accepted rule, model, pattern, or measure.
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What is TAXONOMY?
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a classification system or set of categories, such as nursing diagnoses, arranged on the basis of a single principle or consistent set of principles.
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