NU 325 Final Exam | Latest Version | 2024/2025 | Already Passed

NU 325 Final Exam | Latest Version | 2024/2025 | Already Passed - **Medical diagnosis**: Determined by physicians based on evaluation of symptoms, signs, and diagnostic tests to identify a specific disease or condition. - **Nursing diagnosis**: Used by nurses to assess the response of the whole person to actual or potential health problems, focusing on human responses to health conditions. - **Nursing process**: An iterative framework involving assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation to deliver patient-centered care. - **"A Delicious Orange PIE"**: - **Assessment**: Collecting comprehensive data about the patient's health status. - **Diagnosis**: Analyzing and interpreting the data to identify nursing diagnoses. - **Outcome identification**: Setting measurable goals for patient care outcomes. - **Planning**: Developing a strategy to achieve identified outcomes. - **Implementation**: Executing the planned interventions. - **Evaluation**: Assessing the effectiveness of interventions and revising the plan as needed. - **Inspection phase**: Involves concentrated observation and examination for any visible abnormalities, initiating with the first encounter and general survey of the patient. - **Purpose of percussion**: - Mapping the borders and density of organs based on sound produced. - Detecting superficial masses and eliciting reflexes using percussion techniques. - **Diaphragm**: Used for high-pitched sounds like breath and bowel sounds. It should be held firmly against the skin to amplify these sounds. bell used for soft,low-pitched sounds such as extra heart sounds or murmurs. Hold it lightly a/g the person's skin, just enough that it forms a perfect seal 1st level priorities emergent, life threatening airway, breathing, circulation, vital signs 2nd level priorities requires prompt intervention to forestall further deterioration acute pain, mental status change, abnormal labs, risk of infection 3rd level priorities those that are important to the pt's health but can be addressed after more urgent problems. Interventions to treat these problems are more long term, and the response to treatment is expected to take more time subjective data what the pt says, biased objective data unbiased, what the pt cannot see, labs how do you prioritize patient problems/diagnosis? airway → breathing → circulation → perfusion spirituality broader term focused on a connection to something larger than oneself and a belief in transcendence religion organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, as well as the attendance of regular services