Study Guide Test Bank Resource - Practice-Ready Answer Guide

Study Guide Test Bank Resource - Practice-Ready Answer Guide Medical diagnosis - answer - Identification of a disease condition based on: 1. a specific evaluation of a physical sign and symptoms 2. a patients medical history 3. and the results of diagnostic test and procedures. -stays constant as a condition remains. Collaborative problem - answer - -is an actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a patient's health status. Client-centered problems - answer - Nursing interventions are defined in terms of clients' problems Defining characteristics - answer - Assessment findings that support a nursing diagnosis Nursing diagnosis - answer - 1. is a clinical judgment concerning a human responses to health conditions/life processes that a nurse is licensed and competent to treat. 2. is also known as a patients problem. 3. is a common language for understanding patients needs. 4. allows nurses to communicate plan of care 5. distinguishes the nurses role. 6. it helps prioritize 7.. is always changing on the basis of a patient's care. ----- explains to others how the patients body responds to the medical diagnosis Risk nursing diagnosis - answer - -Human responses to health conditions that may possibly develop due to risk factors. -risk diagnosis has risk factors. Health promotion behavior nursing diagnosis - answer - -is when a patient is motivated and desires to increase well-being and actualize human health potential. -You select this type of diagnosis when the client wishes to or has achieved an optimal level of health Diagnostic label - answer - Is the name of the diagnosis as approved by NANDA; it describes the essence of the client's response to health conditions Related factor - answer - Is a condition or etiology identified from the client's assessment data, actual or potential responses to the health problem Etiology - answer - The cause of the nursing diagnosis. Identification of the cause of a problem. "Study of all factors that may be involved in the development of a disease." Definition: zx - answer - _______ Describes the characteristics of the human response identified Risk factors - answer - Are environmental, physiological, psychological, genetic, or chemical elements that place a person at risk for a health problem purpose of concept mapping - answer - -Is a visual representation of a patient's nursing diagnoses and their relationships with one another. -organizes complex patient data, analyzes concept relationships, and identifies intervention. List practice tips that are essential in avoiding data collection errors. - answer - 1. Review your level of comfort and competence with interview and physical assessment skills. 2. Approach assessment in steps. 3. Review your clinical assessment skills. 4. Determine the accuracy of your data. 5. Be organized in any examination. Identify the step to take to avoid the diagnostic errors in interpretation and analysis of data. - answer - Review your data base to decide if it is accurate and complete; be careful to consider any conflicting cues or if there is insufficient cues to confirm a diagnosis. Identify the step to take to avoid the diagnostic errors in data clustering - answer - Avoid premature clustering of data; always identify the nursing diagnosis from the data, not the reverse. Identify the step to take to avoid the diagnostic errors in the diagnostic statement: - answer - -Word the diagnostic statement in appropriate, concise, and precise language; -use correct terminology; -identify the client problem rather than the goal; -make professional rather than prejudicial judgments; avoid legally inadvisable statements. Actual problem nursing diagnosis - answer - -describes human response to health conditions or life processes. The first part of the nursing diagnosis statement identifies what? - answer - An actual or potential health problem "Related to" - answer - Connects the second part