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critical thinking - Answer: active purposeful organized cognitive process used to carefully examine one's
thinking and the thinking of other individuals
nursing assessment - Answer: 1st step in the nursing process.
activites required in the nursing assessment - Answer: data collection validation sorting and
documentation
purpose of the nursing assessment - Answer: gather information for health problem identification
database - Answer: store or bank of info especially in the form that can be processes by computer
subjective data - Answer: info gathered from [atient statements, patients feelings, and perceptions.
Which kind of data is not verifiable by another source except by inference - Answer: subjective
standing orders - Answer: written and approved documents contain rules policies procedures regulation
and orders for conduct of patient care in various stipulated situations
teaching - Answer: implementation method used to present correct prinicples procedures and
techniques of health care to inform patients about health status and refer patients and families to
appropriate health or social resources in the community
nursing interventions - Answer: any treatment based on clinical judgement and knowledge that a nurse
performs to enchance patient outcomes
nursing diagnosis - Answer: formal statement of an actual or potential health problem that nurses can
legally and independantlly treat.