NURS 121 EXAM 1 VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
primary prevention - Answers - Services that focus on health promotion and illness
prevention. Encourgaes people to make healthy choices and promote healthy living.
secondary prevention - Answers - Includes the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Aimed at early disease detection to prevent the progression of the disease. Ex:
screenings
tertiary prevention - Answers - restoration and rehabilitation following an illness or
accident. Includes rehab and palliative care.
Managed Care Model - Answers - Method of delivering cost effective and high quality
care. Health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations.
case management model - Answers - A collaborative process of assessment, planning,
facilitation d advocacy for options and services to meet an individual and families needs.
It's essential when a patient has multiple care needs and requires services of multiple
providers.
Patient focused care model - Answers - A delivery model that organizes healthcare
around the expressed physical and emotional needs of the patient. Patients help with
decision making.
Factors affecting delivery of health care - Answers - Changing demographics, advances
in technology, health literacy.
Nursing Process - Answers - Used to identify a patients health status and actual or
potential healthcare problems or needs, to establish plans to meet the identified needs,
to deliver specific nursing interventions and to meet those needs, and to evaluate the
success of those interventions.
5 phases of the nursing process - Answers - assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning,
implementation, evaluation.
Assessment - Answers - Collect data
Organize data
Validate data
diagnosis - Answers - Analyze data
Identify health problems, risks, and strengths
Formulate diagnostic statements
, Planning - Answers - Prioritize problems/diagnoses
Formulate goals/desired outcomes
Select nursing interventions
Write nursing interventions
Implementation - Answers - Reassess the patient
Determine the nurses need for assistance
Implement the nursing interventions
Supervise delegates care
Document nursing activities
Evaluation - Answers - Collect data related to outcomes
Compare data with outcomes
Relate nursing actions to patient goals/outcomes
Draw conclusions about problem status
Continue, modify, or terminate the patients care plan
Problem-focused diagnosis - Answers - a patient problem that is present at the time of
the nursing assessment. Based on associated assessment data
risk nursing diagnosis - Answers - clinical judgment that a problem does not exist, but
the presence of risk factors indicates that a problem is likely to develop unless nurses
intervene
health promotion diagnosis - Answers - relates to clients' preparedness (readiness) to
implement behaviors to improve their health condition
syndrome diagnosis - Answers - a diagnosis that is associated with a cluster of other
diagnoses
3 components of a Nursing Dx - Answers - diagnostic label: "what is the focus of the
problem?"
etiology: "where did it come from (what's it related to)?"
defining characteristics: "what does it look like now?"
Modifiers of Nursing judgement - Answers - Deficient: inadequate in amount, quality or
degree
Impaired: made worse, weakened, damaged
Decreased: lesser in size, amount, or degree
Ineffective: not producing the desired effect
Compromised: to make vulnerable to threat
Goals Vs Outcomes - Answers - Goals are observable patient responses, what the
nurse hopes to achieve through nursing actions;
Outcomes are used to evaluate the patient's response to the plan of care
primary prevention - Answers - Services that focus on health promotion and illness
prevention. Encourgaes people to make healthy choices and promote healthy living.
secondary prevention - Answers - Includes the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Aimed at early disease detection to prevent the progression of the disease. Ex:
screenings
tertiary prevention - Answers - restoration and rehabilitation following an illness or
accident. Includes rehab and palliative care.
Managed Care Model - Answers - Method of delivering cost effective and high quality
care. Health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations.
case management model - Answers - A collaborative process of assessment, planning,
facilitation d advocacy for options and services to meet an individual and families needs.
It's essential when a patient has multiple care needs and requires services of multiple
providers.
Patient focused care model - Answers - A delivery model that organizes healthcare
around the expressed physical and emotional needs of the patient. Patients help with
decision making.
Factors affecting delivery of health care - Answers - Changing demographics, advances
in technology, health literacy.
Nursing Process - Answers - Used to identify a patients health status and actual or
potential healthcare problems or needs, to establish plans to meet the identified needs,
to deliver specific nursing interventions and to meet those needs, and to evaluate the
success of those interventions.
5 phases of the nursing process - Answers - assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning,
implementation, evaluation.
Assessment - Answers - Collect data
Organize data
Validate data
diagnosis - Answers - Analyze data
Identify health problems, risks, and strengths
Formulate diagnostic statements
, Planning - Answers - Prioritize problems/diagnoses
Formulate goals/desired outcomes
Select nursing interventions
Write nursing interventions
Implementation - Answers - Reassess the patient
Determine the nurses need for assistance
Implement the nursing interventions
Supervise delegates care
Document nursing activities
Evaluation - Answers - Collect data related to outcomes
Compare data with outcomes
Relate nursing actions to patient goals/outcomes
Draw conclusions about problem status
Continue, modify, or terminate the patients care plan
Problem-focused diagnosis - Answers - a patient problem that is present at the time of
the nursing assessment. Based on associated assessment data
risk nursing diagnosis - Answers - clinical judgment that a problem does not exist, but
the presence of risk factors indicates that a problem is likely to develop unless nurses
intervene
health promotion diagnosis - Answers - relates to clients' preparedness (readiness) to
implement behaviors to improve their health condition
syndrome diagnosis - Answers - a diagnosis that is associated with a cluster of other
diagnoses
3 components of a Nursing Dx - Answers - diagnostic label: "what is the focus of the
problem?"
etiology: "where did it come from (what's it related to)?"
defining characteristics: "what does it look like now?"
Modifiers of Nursing judgement - Answers - Deficient: inadequate in amount, quality or
degree
Impaired: made worse, weakened, damaged
Decreased: lesser in size, amount, or degree
Ineffective: not producing the desired effect
Compromised: to make vulnerable to threat
Goals Vs Outcomes - Answers - Goals are observable patient responses, what the
nurse hopes to achieve through nursing actions;
Outcomes are used to evaluate the patient's response to the plan of care
