The Nursing Process And Critical Thinking Chapter 4, 5, And 6

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The Nursing Process

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Is a way of thinking and acting based on the scientific method(step by step process used by scientist to solve problems)

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Scientific Method

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Step by step process used by a scientist to solve problems

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The Five Components of the Nursing Process?

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Assessment

Nursing Diagnosis

Planning

Implementation

Evaluation

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NFLPN

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National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurse

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Clinical Reasoning

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Skills that result in solid Clinical Judgement

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What does critical mean?

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Means requiring careful judgment

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Thinking term used in (Critical Thinking) means

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Thinking means to reason

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The Term "Critical Thinking" is defined as?

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Directed, purposeful, mental activity by which you evaluate ideas, construct plans, and determine desired outcomes.

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Critical Thinking inside the clinical setting?

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is called clinical reasoning, which is necessary to make reliable observations regarding health status and to draw sound conclusion from the data obtained

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Clinical Judgment

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is the outcome of clinical reasoning

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Decision making

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is choosing the best actions to meet a desired goal and is part of critical thinking

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EBP

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Evidence based practice

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KSA

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Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes

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Assessments (Data Collection)

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Collecting, organizing, documentation, and validating data about a patients health status. Assessment data is gathered from the patient, family, doctor, diagnostic tests.

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Nurse Diagnosis

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Assessment data is sorted and analyzed so that specific, actual, and potential health problems are identified. Specific nursing diagnosis are chosen for the patients care plan.

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Planning

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A series of steps the nurse and the patient set priorities and goals to eliminate or diminish the identified problems.

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Implementation

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Carrying out the nursing interventions in a systematic way. The patients response to the care given is documented

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Evaluation

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Assessing the patients response to the nursing interventions. Compared with the expected outcomes to determine whether they have been achieved.

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Priority

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More and important then something else at the time

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Prioritizing includes?

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placing nursing diagnoses or nursing interventions in order of importance

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The Three Methods of Data Collection Can Be?

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Structured format from the 11 functional health patterns

Focused Assessment-Concerned with one specific problem

Maslows Hierarchy of basic needs-assess every area

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Interview

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conversation in which facts are obtained about a patient

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Subjective Data

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Data obtained from the patient verbally

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Objective Data

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Information obtained through the senses and hands on physical examination, vital signs, diagnostic test are examples

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Interview

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focused on gathering information/data and is not a social interaction

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Interviews are assessed in such a way?

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The opening= Rapport

The Body=necessary questions are obtained

The Closing= finish and ask if the patient has any questions

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Inspection

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Portion of the physical examination= Looking

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Auscultation

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Listening

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Palpation

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touching

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Percussion

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thumping

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Long Term Care Facility

ADL's

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Activities of Daily Living

In which a patient will need assessment

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Cues

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Pieces of data or information that influence decisions such as signs and symptoms

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Nursing Diagnosis

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Statement indicates the patients actual health status or the risk of a problem developing, the causative or related factors, and specific characteristics (Signs and Symptoms)

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NANDA-I

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National American Nursing Diagnosis Association-International

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Etiological Factors

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the cause of the problem

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Defining Characteristics

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Signs and Symptoms that must be present for a particular nursing diagnosis to be appropriate for the patient

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Signs

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Abnormalities that can be verified by repeat examination and are objective data

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Symptoms

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Are factors the patient has said are occurring that cannot be verified by examination. i.e. symptoms are subjective data

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Nursing diagnosis

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defines the patients response to illness

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Medical Diagnosis

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Labels an illness

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r/t means

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related to

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Goals

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broad idea of what is to be achieved through the nursing intervention

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Short term goals

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are those that are achieved in 7-10 days or before discharge

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Long term goals

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often relate to rehabilitation

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Expected outcomes

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Derived from goals, specific statement regarding the goal the patient is expected to achieve as a result of nursing intervention

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Expected Outcome

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should be realistic and attainable and should have a defined time line, collaboration with the patient regarding the expected outcomes is important

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Time-flexible

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can be done anytime

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Time-fixed

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must be done at a set time

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Independent Nursing Action

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does not require a physicians order

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Dependent Nursing Action

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requires a doctors order

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Interdependent Action

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Collaborating with health professionals, assisting with physical therapy by helping the patient exercise

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Remember

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The nurse performs any invasive procedure and any sterile procedure

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Remember

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Nurses notes must indicate that the nursing care plan has been carried out, if not documented action is considered not done

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Outcome-based quality improvement QBQI

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Improvement of the quality of performance