NR224 Fundamentals Final Exam Study Guide

NR224 Fundamentals Final Exam Study Guide Terms in this set (59) Nursing process Assessment, diagnose, plan, implementation and evaluation Assessment First step of the nursing process. Activities required in the first step are data collection, validation, sorting, and documentation. The purpose is to gather information for health problem identification. Brainpower Read More Diagnostic process Mental steps (data clustering and analysis, problem identification) that follow assessment and lead directly to the formulation of a diagnosis. Nurses do not make medical diagnoses, but they do assess and monitor patients closely and compare the patients' signs and symptoms with those that are common to a medical diagnosis. Planning Process of designing interventions to achieve the goals and outcomes of health care delivery. Implemention Initiation and completion of the nursing actions necessary to help the patient achieve health care goals. Evaluation Determination of the extent to which established patient goals have been achieved. Critical thinking Active, purposeful, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine one's thinking and the thinking of other individuals. Need to make clinical judgments and decisions about your patients' health care needs based on knowledge, experience, and standards of care. Use critical thinking skills and reflections to help you gain and interpret scientific knowledge, integrate knowledge from clinical experiences, and become a lifelong learner. You use critical thinking and decision making for the individual patient and family—assessing health status, diagnosing health problems, planning care, implementing interventions, and evaluating outcomes of care. Three type of nursing Diagnosis actual diagnoses, risk diagnoses, and health promotion diagnoses.