Civility - Answers Acting politely
Bioethics - Answers The study of ethical and philosophical issues in the biology and medicine
Critical Thinking - Answers the ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with openness
to question and reflect on the reasoning process
Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgement Skills - Answers Interpretation
Analysis
Inference
Evaluation
Explanation
Self-Regulation
Scientific Method - Answers Nurses use to test research, looks for truth, or verifies that a set of
facts agrees with reality.
Five steps of the scientific method - Answers - identifying the problem
- collecting data
- forming a question or hypothesis
- testing the question or hypothesis
- evaluating results of the test or study
Problem Solving - Answers Evaluating the solution over time to make sure it is effective
Diagnostic Reasoning - Answers analytical process for determining a patient's health problems
Inference - Answers The process of drawing conclusions from related pieces of evidence and
previous experience with the evidence
Knowing the patient - Answers an in-depth knowledge of a patient's patterns of responses
within a clinical situation and knowing the patient as a person
Nursing Process - Answers five-step systematic method for giving patient care; involves
assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating
Purpose of the Nursing Process - Answers to diagnose and treat human responses to actual or
potential health problems
, What does a clinical interview do? - Answers Helps get a detailed history of the patients problem
and provide care accordingly
Probing - Answers Explores the history of the patient without controlling the direction of the
story and is meant to bring out as much information as the patient can give
Leading Question - Answers is meant to control the direction of the story
What kind of question is used to start assessment? - Answers Open Ended Questions
what does the PES format stand for - Answers Problem, Etiology, Symptoms
Sources of Diagnostic Error - Answers - data collection
- data clustering
- interpretation and analysis of data
- labeling the diagnosis/the diagnostic statement
Nursing Risk Diagnosis - Answers describes human responses to health conditions or life
processes that may develop in a vulnerable individual, family, or community
Nursing Health Promotion Diagnosis - Answers a clinical judgment of a person's, family's, or
community's motivations, desires, and readiness to increase well-being.
Diagnosis - Answers A clinical judgement made on the basis of information
Medical Diagnosis - Answers Identification of a disease condition based on specific evaluation
of physical signs and symptoms, a patients medical history, and the results of diagnostic tests
and procedures
Data Clusters - Answers a set of cues, the signs or symptoms gathered during assessment
Collecting (Diagnostic Error) - Answers Lack of knowledge or skill
Inaccurate Data
Missing Data
Disorganization
Failure to validate
Interpreting (Diagnostic Error) - Answers Inaccurate interpretation of cues
Failure to consider conflicting cues
Using an insufficient number of cues