HEALTH ASSESSMENT: NURSING PROCESS
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT!!
, Nursing Process - ANSWER Common language for nurses to "think through" clinical
problems
Critical thinking is at the base of nursing process.
Five stages of nursing process - ANSWER 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementing
5. Evaluating
Critical Thinking and Diagnostic Process - ANSWER The standards of practice in
nursing is termed the NURSING PROCESS (it is ongoing)
Initial- Ongoing- Discharge Planning - ANSWER - Initial
*Upon admission
*Comprehensive plan of care
- Ongoing
*Beginning of shift
- Discharge
*Anticipation for needs after discharge
*Begins with admission !!!!!!
Assessment will be subjective and objective and ongoing throughout their entire stay
Discharge begins at the admission!!!***
Do they even have a home.
Assessment
Point of Entry In an Ongoing Process - ANSWER - Collection of data about the
individual's health state
- Collecting and analyzing data
* subjective (what the person says)
* objective information (what you observe through: inspection, percussing, palpating,
and auscultating)
* Patient's record/chart and lab values
Subjective then objective (what we can measure).
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT!!
, Nursing Process - ANSWER Common language for nurses to "think through" clinical
problems
Critical thinking is at the base of nursing process.
Five stages of nursing process - ANSWER 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementing
5. Evaluating
Critical Thinking and Diagnostic Process - ANSWER The standards of practice in
nursing is termed the NURSING PROCESS (it is ongoing)
Initial- Ongoing- Discharge Planning - ANSWER - Initial
*Upon admission
*Comprehensive plan of care
- Ongoing
*Beginning of shift
- Discharge
*Anticipation for needs after discharge
*Begins with admission !!!!!!
Assessment will be subjective and objective and ongoing throughout their entire stay
Discharge begins at the admission!!!***
Do they even have a home.
Assessment
Point of Entry In an Ongoing Process - ANSWER - Collection of data about the
individual's health state
- Collecting and analyzing data
* subjective (what the person says)
* objective information (what you observe through: inspection, percussing, palpating,
and auscultating)
* Patient's record/chart and lab values
Subjective then objective (what we can measure).
