DIAGNOSIS EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
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◉ WHEN is a nursing diagnosis made? Answer: A nursing diagnosis
is made when a nurse has applied all elements of critical thinking in
making the clinical judgment that leads to identifying health-related
problems based on patient data
◉ medical diagnosis Answer: The identification of a disease condition
based on an evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, a patients
medical history, and diagnostic tests and procedures.
It is the language health care providers (physicians, APRN) use to
communicate patient's health problems and associated treatments and
responses.
◉ Nursing Diagnosis Answer: A clinical judgment made by a
registered nurse to describe a patient's response or vulnerability to
health conditions or life events that the nurse is licensed and
competent to treat.
Nurses treat patients' responses to medical health conditions.
◉ collaborative problems ( type of diagnoses) Answer: requires both
medical and nursing interventions to treat. Nurses practice with other
, health care professionals to manage certain types of collaborative
problems.
◉ interprofessional collaboration Answer: when health care providers
from various disciplines and patients communicate and consider one
another's unique perspectives, they will better manage the multiple
factors that influence the health of individuals, families, and
communities.
◉ What is the International Classification for Nursing Practice
(ICNP) Answer: a standard terminology system used across the world
referring to nursing diagnoses.
◉ What is NANDA International? Answer: a terminology system that
provides standard, formal diagnostic statements (labels) based on
analyzed, clustered and interpreted assessment data.
◉ What is the nursing diagnostic reasoning? Answer: the process of
analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses
◉ What is data clusters? Answer: critically organizing all data
elements about a patients into meaningful patterns.
A set of assessment findings is a group of data elements that are
objective or subjective signs, symptoms, or risk factor that leads you
into making a diagnostic conclusion