2026 Update): Nursing Fundamental
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1. Standards of Nursing Practice: Standards allow nurses to carry out professional
duties and protect
the nurse, patient and institution
2. Nurse Practice Acts: laws established in each state in the US to regulate the
practice of nursing
3. Code of Ethics for Nurses: provide the foundation for nursing practice and
guide interactions with
patients
4. Data Collection: Assessment: collection, validation and communication of
patient data
5. Nursing aims: To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
Facilitate coping with disability and death
6. Nursing Diagnosis: analysis of patient data to identify patient strengths and
health problems that
independent nursing intervention can prevent or solve
7. planning and identification of outcome goals: specify patient outcomes to
prevent, reduce
or resolve problems identified in the nursing diagnosis
, Nursing interventions
8. implementation: carrying out care plan
9. teaching: assess the patients knowledge first then assess their knowledge on
different treatment options
10. evaluation: measuring the extent to which the patient achieved the outcome
goal, identify factors that
positively or negatively impacted the goal
11. Assessment should be: complete, relevant, systematic, purposeful, factual,
and recording in a standard matter
12. Initial assessment: preformed shortly after patient admission, establish a data
base of patient care plan
and problem identification
13. client centered assessment: consider culture, health orientation,
developmental stage
14. focused assessment: The nurse gathers data about a specific problem that has
already been identified.,
routinely part of ongoing data collection
15. time-lapsed assessment: Scheduled to compare a patient's current status to
the baseline data
obtained earlier.
16. emergency assessment: ABCDE, rapid life threatening problem
17. Validating data: keep data free of error, bias or misinterpretation
18. How do we reduce data errors: validating data, clinical reasoning skills,
observation, prepare for
what data you need to collect, clustering data
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