NUR 155 Foundations to Nursing
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1. What is the nursing process?: Systematic, rational method of planning and proving individualized care.
2. What do you do in the nursing process?: 1. Assessing
2. Nursing Diagnosing
3. Planning
4. Implementing
5. Evaluating
3. What is the Decision-Making Process?: -Choosing the best actions to meet a desired goal
-Make value decisions
-Time management decisions
-Scheduling decisions
-Priority decisions
4. The Nursing Process: Assessing: -Collecting, organizing, validating and documenting a patient's
health data
-collect data
-organize data
-validate data
-Document data
5. The Nursing Process: Diagnosing: -Analyze date
-Identify health problems, risks, and strengths
-formulate diagnostic statements
6. The Nursing Process: Planning: -Prioritize problems/diagnoses
-Formulate goals/desired outcomes
-Select nursing interventions
-Write nursing interventions
7. The Nursing Process: Implementing: -Reassess the client
-Determine the nurse's need for assistance
-Implementing the nursing interventions
-Supervise delegated care
-Document nursing activités
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8. The Nursing Process: Evaluating: -Collect data related to outcomes
-Compare data with outcomes
-Relate nursing actions to client goals/outcomes
-Draw conclusions about problem status
-Continue, modify, or terminate the client's care plan
9. What is subjective?: What the patient says
Ex: "I have pain, nausea, fear"
10. What is objective?: -Measurable
Ex: vital signs, labs, drainage, etc.
11. Methods of data collection?: -Observing
-Interviewing
12. Directive Approach to Interviewing?: -Nurse establishes purpose
-Nurse controls the interview
-Used to gather and give information when time is limited, e.g., in an emergency
13. Nondirective Approach to Interviewing: -Rapport-building
-Client controls the purpose, subject matter, and pacing
-Combination of directive and nondirective approaches usually appropriate during the information-gathering interview
14. Types of questions: Closed: If you can answer a question with only a "yes" or "no" response, then you
are answering a close-ended type of question.
Examples of close-ended questions are:
Are you feeling better today?
May I use the bathroom?
Is the prime rib a special tonight?
Should I date him?
Will you please do me a favor?
15. Types of questions: Open: Open-ended questions are ones that require more than one word answers.
The answers could come in the form of a list, a few sentences or something longer such as a speech, paragraph or
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1. What is the nursing process?: Systematic, rational method of planning and proving individualized care.
2. What do you do in the nursing process?: 1. Assessing
2. Nursing Diagnosing
3. Planning
4. Implementing
5. Evaluating
3. What is the Decision-Making Process?: -Choosing the best actions to meet a desired goal
-Make value decisions
-Time management decisions
-Scheduling decisions
-Priority decisions
4. The Nursing Process: Assessing: -Collecting, organizing, validating and documenting a patient's
health data
-collect data
-organize data
-validate data
-Document data
5. The Nursing Process: Diagnosing: -Analyze date
-Identify health problems, risks, and strengths
-formulate diagnostic statements
6. The Nursing Process: Planning: -Prioritize problems/diagnoses
-Formulate goals/desired outcomes
-Select nursing interventions
-Write nursing interventions
7. The Nursing Process: Implementing: -Reassess the client
-Determine the nurse's need for assistance
-Implementing the nursing interventions
-Supervise delegated care
-Document nursing activités
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, NUR 155 Foundations to Nursing
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g0dy2e
8. The Nursing Process: Evaluating: -Collect data related to outcomes
-Compare data with outcomes
-Relate nursing actions to client goals/outcomes
-Draw conclusions about problem status
-Continue, modify, or terminate the client's care plan
9. What is subjective?: What the patient says
Ex: "I have pain, nausea, fear"
10. What is objective?: -Measurable
Ex: vital signs, labs, drainage, etc.
11. Methods of data collection?: -Observing
-Interviewing
12. Directive Approach to Interviewing?: -Nurse establishes purpose
-Nurse controls the interview
-Used to gather and give information when time is limited, e.g., in an emergency
13. Nondirective Approach to Interviewing: -Rapport-building
-Client controls the purpose, subject matter, and pacing
-Combination of directive and nondirective approaches usually appropriate during the information-gathering interview
14. Types of questions: Closed: If you can answer a question with only a "yes" or "no" response, then you
are answering a close-ended type of question.
Examples of close-ended questions are:
Are you feeling better today?
May I use the bathroom?
Is the prime rib a special tonight?
Should I date him?
Will you please do me a favor?
15. Types of questions: Open: Open-ended questions are ones that require more than one word answers.
The answers could come in the form of a list, a few sentences or something longer such as a speech, paragraph or
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