NUR 200 Exam #1
Critical Thinking Defined - ✔✔✔-an active, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine ones
thinking and the thinking of others
-recognizing an issue exists, analyzing info, evaluating info, and making conclusions
-using critical thinking
Thinking and Learning - ✔✔✔-learning is a lifelong process
-intellectual knowledge, as well as refining the ability to think, solve problems, and make judgements
-what level of critical thinking (basic, complex, commitment)
5 Components of Critical Thinking - ✔✔✔1.) knowledge base
2.) experience
3.) nursing process competencies
4.) attitudes
5.) standards
Nursing Process Definition - ✔✔✔-a systematic problem solving process that guides all nursing actions
-purpose is to help the nurse provide goal-directed, client-centered care
-originated in 1955 as a series of phases describing the process of nursing
-assists in establishing priorities
Phases of the Nursing Process - ✔✔✔1.) Assessment
2.) Diagnosis
3.) Planning (outcomes, then interventions)
4.) Implementation
5.) Evaluation
, -all the steps are interrelated
Assessment: The First Phase - ✔✔✔-gathering data
-continuing process
Diagnosis - ✔✔✔-may be independent or collaborative problem
-use NANDA
-identify the client's health needs
NANDA - ✔✔✔-is the language all nurses are supposed to speak
Planning - ✔✔✔-planning outcomes (NOC)
-planning interventions (NIC)
Implementation - ✔✔✔-action phase when the nurse acts or carries out the plans that were supposed
to happen
Evaluation - ✔✔✔-compare the actual results with the results that were predicted
2 Stages to Assessment - ✔✔✔-collection and validation of data
-analysis of data
What can a UAP do? - ✔✔✔-standard, unchanging procedures
-never delegate something to a UAP that is assessment, evaluation, or teaching
-can reiterate the information that was already told/taught to them, the cannot inform them of new
information
Critical Thinking Defined - ✔✔✔-an active, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine ones
thinking and the thinking of others
-recognizing an issue exists, analyzing info, evaluating info, and making conclusions
-using critical thinking
Thinking and Learning - ✔✔✔-learning is a lifelong process
-intellectual knowledge, as well as refining the ability to think, solve problems, and make judgements
-what level of critical thinking (basic, complex, commitment)
5 Components of Critical Thinking - ✔✔✔1.) knowledge base
2.) experience
3.) nursing process competencies
4.) attitudes
5.) standards
Nursing Process Definition - ✔✔✔-a systematic problem solving process that guides all nursing actions
-purpose is to help the nurse provide goal-directed, client-centered care
-originated in 1955 as a series of phases describing the process of nursing
-assists in establishing priorities
Phases of the Nursing Process - ✔✔✔1.) Assessment
2.) Diagnosis
3.) Planning (outcomes, then interventions)
4.) Implementation
5.) Evaluation
, -all the steps are interrelated
Assessment: The First Phase - ✔✔✔-gathering data
-continuing process
Diagnosis - ✔✔✔-may be independent or collaborative problem
-use NANDA
-identify the client's health needs
NANDA - ✔✔✔-is the language all nurses are supposed to speak
Planning - ✔✔✔-planning outcomes (NOC)
-planning interventions (NIC)
Implementation - ✔✔✔-action phase when the nurse acts or carries out the plans that were supposed
to happen
Evaluation - ✔✔✔-compare the actual results with the results that were predicted
2 Stages to Assessment - ✔✔✔-collection and validation of data
-analysis of data
What can a UAP do? - ✔✔✔-standard, unchanging procedures
-never delegate something to a UAP that is assessment, evaluation, or teaching
-can reiterate the information that was already told/taught to them, the cannot inform them of new
information
