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critical thinking in nursing
-Purposeful, outcome-directed (result-oriented) thinking
-Is driven by patient, family, and community needs
-Is based on the nursing process, evidence-based thinking, and the
scientific method
-Requires specific knowledge, skills, and experience
-New nurses must question
-Guided by professional standards and ethic codes
-Is constantly reevaluating, self-correcting, and striving to improve
health promotion
the behavior of a person who is motivated by a personal desire to
increase well-being and health potential
, All life-threatening problems identified during the initial assessment
require the initiation of critical interventions:
Provide assistance with circulation (cardiopulmonary resuscitation if
needed).
Open the patient's airway.
Assist the patient's breathing.
Protect the cervical spine if the patient is injured.
Ensure that the disoriented or suicidal patient is safe.
Provide pain management and sedation.
functional assessment
focuses on the functional patterns that all humans share: health
perception and health management, activity and exercise,
nutrition and metabolism, elimination, sleep and rest, cognition
and perception, self-perception and self-concept, roles and
relationships, coping and stress tolerance, sexuality and
reproduction, and values and beliefs; used to collect subjective
data and a head-to-toe approach for the physical assessment
,3 common types of nursing assessments
emergency
comprehensive
focused
head-to-toe assessment
most organized system for gathering comprehensive physical data
body systems assessment
tool for organizing data when documenting and communicating
findings; promotes critical thinking
communication
the process of exchanging information and generating and
transmitting meanings between two or more people; interactive
process that forms the basis for building interpersonal relationship
, message
actual communication product from the source. It might be a
speech, interview, conversation, chart, gesture, memorandum, or
nursing note
channel
the medium the sender has selected to send the message
Auditory—spoken words and cues
Visual—sight, observations, and perception
Kinesthetic—touch
confirmation of the message provides
feedback
noise
factors that distort the quality of the message