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Taylor's Fundamentals of Nursing
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Diagnosing
- Second step of the nursing process (ADPIE)
- ANA standards of practice STANDARD 2
- The nurse interprets + analyzes data gathered from the nursing assessment
- Identify patient strengths + health problems
- Formulate + validate nursing diagnoses
- Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses
- Detect + refer signs + symptoms that may indicate a problem beyond the nurse's
experience
Q: Which activities does the nurse perform during the diagnosing stage? Select all that
apply.
• Identifies factors contributing to the client's health problem.
• Prioritizes the client's health problems with input from the client.
• Validates the identified health problems with the clients.
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3 Purposes of Diagnosing
1.) Identify how a person, group, or community responds to actual or potential health + life
processes
2.) Identify factors that contribute to or cause health problems (etiologies)
3.) Identify resources or strengths that the person, group or community can draw on to
prevent or resolve problems
Q: A nurse is explaining the purpose of nursing diagnoses to a client. What would be the
most appropriate statement for the nurse to make?
"Nursing diagnoses are used to guide the nurse in selecting appropriate nursing
interventions."
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Taylor's Fundamentals of Nursing
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Diagnosing
- Second step of the nursing process (ADPIE)
- ANA standards of practice STANDARD 2
- The nurse interprets + analyzes data gathered from the nursing assessment
- Identify patient strengths + health problems
- Formulate + validate nursing diagnoses
- Develop prioritized list of nursing diagnoses
- Detect + refer signs + symptoms that may indicate a problem beyond the nurse's
experience
Q: Which activities does the nurse perform during the diagnosing stage? Select all that
apply.
• Identifies factors contributing to the client's health problem.
• Prioritizes the client's health problems with input from the client.
• Validates the identified health problems with the clients.
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3 Purposes of Diagnosing
1.) Identify how a person, group, or community responds to actual or potential health + life
processes
2.) Identify factors that contribute to or cause health problems (etiologies)
3.) Identify resources or strengths that the person, group or community can draw on to
prevent or resolve problems
Q: A nurse is explaining the purpose of nursing diagnoses to a client. What would be the
most appropriate statement for the nurse to make?
"Nursing diagnoses are used to guide the nurse in selecting appropriate nursing
interventions."
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