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Roles of the Professional Nurse - ✔✔1. To promote Health
2. Prevent illness
3. to treat human responses to health or illness
4. Advocate for individuals, families, communities, and populations.
Who is a nurse? - ✔✔1. Provider of Care
2. Manager of Care
3. Member of a Profession
Nursing Values - ✔✔respect, unity, diversity, integrity, excellence
Nursing and Health promotion - ✔✔Health behaviors are influenced by a person's
beliefs, culture and perceptions as well as competing demands in the person's life
Wellness and illness - ✔✔wellness is an integrated method of functioning oriented
toward maximizing the potential of the individuals
Primary Prevention - ✔✔strategies aimed at preventing health problems
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,Ex: immunizations, health teachings
Secondary prevention - ✔✔Early diagnosis and prompt treatment before disease
becomes advanced and disability severe
Ex: screenings
Tertiary prevention - ✔✔preventing complications of an existing disease and promoting
health to the highest level
Ex. Diet teaching and exercise programs.
Nursing Process - ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Critical Thinking - ✔✔-entails purposeful, outcome directed thinking
-driven by patient, family and community needs
-baed on the nursing process evidence based thinking and the scientific method.
Diagnostic reasoning - ✔✔includes gathering and clustering data to draw inferences
and propose diagnoses
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, Types of Nursing Assessments - ✔✔emergency, comprehensive, focused
Emergency and Urgent Assessment - ✔✔A- Airway
B-Breathing
C-circulation
D- Disability
E-Exposure
comprehensive assessment - ✔✔health history and complete physical examination,
usually conducted when a patient first enters a health care setting; provides a baseline
for comparing later assessment
Focused Assessment - ✔✔assessment conducted to assess a specific problem; focuses on
pertinent history and body regions
cultural competence - ✔✔The complex combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills
that a health care provider uses to deliver care that considers the total context of the
patient's situation across cultural boundaries.
Subjective data - ✔✔based on patient experiences and perceptions
Document them in quotes
Objective data - ✔✔measurable data
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