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Caregiver
Advocate
What are the most important roles of
Educator
the nurse (5)
Researcher
Leader
(1) Assessment
(2) Nursing Diagnosis
(3) Planning
What are the 5 steps in the nursing
process?
(4) Implementation
(5) Evaluation
*** All of the above require critical thinking!
Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health and/or situation.
Define Assessment
- info medical personnel can look at
- begins the moment you walk through the door
NO! Only the patient can give subjective info.
Can the RN provide subjective
information about patient?
OBJECTIVE info is what the RN sees, hears, or smells
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, Analyze the assessment and make a clinical judgement related to an ACTUAL
or POTENTIAL health problem.
What is the Diagnosis phase?
** Nurses have to be aware of potential risks based on health problems.
** Also collaborate with other specialists to manage the problem(s)
First info → Related to → as evidence by
WHAT is the problem?
WHY is it a problem?
What are the three phases of a Nursing
WHAT is the evidence of that problem?
Diagnosis?
Ex:
"Acute pain → related to surgical incision → as evidence by patient report (or
as evidence by crying)"
This is the statement of how a patient's status will change once interventions
have been successfully instituted
What are the OUTCOMES Identify the expected outcomes when planning for the patient's individual
IDENTIFICATION? situation.
Interventions must be measurable criterion indicating that objectives have
been met.
Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected
outcomes.
Define the PLANNING stage of the
- Prioritize strategies
nursing process
- Goals (statement that describes the aim if the nursing care) should be short
term and long term
Describe IMPLEMENTATION of the The actions to facilitate positive patient outcomes
nursing process
Cognitive
What three skills are needed in order to
Personal
implement goals?
Psychomotor
This describes how well the patients needs were met (or not met).
Describe the EVALUATION phase of the
nursing process
Done through reassessment
What percentage of all communication 90%
is nonverbal?
CARING
What two characteristics should nurses
always exude?
COMPETENCE
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