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4 goals of nursing - to promote health
- to prevent illness
- to treat human responses to health or illness
- to advocate for the population
Nursing process - assessment
- diagnosis
- outcome identification/planning
- implementation
- evaluation
Nursing values - respect
- unity
- diversity
- integrity
- excellence
purpose of health assessment gather information about the health status of the patient,
analyzing and synthesizing data, making judgments about nursing interventions based on the
findings, and evaluating patient care outcomes
interventions promoting healthy change - primary: aimed at preventing injury or illness
- secondary: aimed at early diagnosis, prompt treatment
- tertiary: aimed at preventing complications of an existing disease
primary prevention examples - vaccinations
,- car seats
- seatbelts
- safe sex
- nutrition counseling
secondary prevention examples - vision screening
- hearing screening
- pap smear
- mammogram
- TB skin test
tertiary prevention examples - physical therapy
- exercise program
- diet teaching
- medication
True/False: A health assessment includes both a health history and a physical examination.
True
7 step process of diagnostic reasoning in health assessment - identify abnormal data
- cluster the data
- draw inferences
- propose nursing diagnoses
- check for presence of defining characteristics
- confirm or rule out nursing diagnoses
- document conclusions
, types of assessment - emergency - life-threatening or unstable situation (ABCDE)
- comprehensive - complete history and physical
- focused - smaller scope, more in depth problem-based
What are ABCDEs of assessment? Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability (level of consciousness)
Exposure (expose all skin)
3 health assessment frameworks - functional assessment - functional patterns, subjective
data
- head-to-toe assessment - most organized, objective data
- body system approach - clusters data to identify issues
Which physical assessment framework promotes critical thinking? Body systems approach
Forms of communication - verbal: words (spoken and written, laughing)
- nonverbal: body language (touch, eye contact, facial expression)
- electronic: email, social media, text messages
Components of communication - sender
- receiver
- understanding
- perception
- culture
- noise (distraction)
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4 goals of nursing - to promote health
- to prevent illness
- to treat human responses to health or illness
- to advocate for the population
Nursing process - assessment
- diagnosis
- outcome identification/planning
- implementation
- evaluation
Nursing values - respect
- unity
- diversity
- integrity
- excellence
purpose of health assessment gather information about the health status of the patient,
analyzing and synthesizing data, making judgments about nursing interventions based on the
findings, and evaluating patient care outcomes
interventions promoting healthy change - primary: aimed at preventing injury or illness
- secondary: aimed at early diagnosis, prompt treatment
- tertiary: aimed at preventing complications of an existing disease
primary prevention examples - vaccinations
,- car seats
- seatbelts
- safe sex
- nutrition counseling
secondary prevention examples - vision screening
- hearing screening
- pap smear
- mammogram
- TB skin test
tertiary prevention examples - physical therapy
- exercise program
- diet teaching
- medication
True/False: A health assessment includes both a health history and a physical examination.
True
7 step process of diagnostic reasoning in health assessment - identify abnormal data
- cluster the data
- draw inferences
- propose nursing diagnoses
- check for presence of defining characteristics
- confirm or rule out nursing diagnoses
- document conclusions
, types of assessment - emergency - life-threatening or unstable situation (ABCDE)
- comprehensive - complete history and physical
- focused - smaller scope, more in depth problem-based
What are ABCDEs of assessment? Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability (level of consciousness)
Exposure (expose all skin)
3 health assessment frameworks - functional assessment - functional patterns, subjective
data
- head-to-toe assessment - most organized, objective data
- body system approach - clusters data to identify issues
Which physical assessment framework promotes critical thinking? Body systems approach
Forms of communication - verbal: words (spoken and written, laughing)
- nonverbal: body language (touch, eye contact, facial expression)
- electronic: email, social media, text messages
Components of communication - sender
- receiver
- understanding
- perception
- culture
- noise (distraction)
