NUR 100 Final Exam (1).docx

NUR 100 Final Exam (1).docx Final Exam Review Nursing Process Chapter 16 1. Critical thinking 5 step Process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to caregiving and promoting human functions and responses to health and illness. 2. Fundamental blueprint for how to care for patients 3. First Step is Assessment —> gathering and analyzing information about a patent’s health status. 4. Comprehensive assessment —> leads to making accurate nursing diagnoses, allowing you to then —> create an appropriate plan of care for a patient. 5. Next Step is Implementation —> performing the planned interventions or collaboration 6. Last step is Evaluation —> evaluate the PTs responses and whether the interventions were effective. 7. Nursing Process is a form of scientific reasoning. Sources of Data 1. Patient 1. Conscious, alert and able to answer questions without cognitive impairment provide the most accurate information 2. Know your PTs health literacy level. Limited literacy leads to difficulty obtaining, processing, and understanding basic health information. 3. Use short questions, keep language uncomplicated, and listen to a PTs perspective carefully. 2. Family & Significant Others 1. Are primary sources of information for infants or children, critically ill adults, and patients who are mentally handicapped or have cognitive impairment. 2. They are also important secondary sources of information. They confirm findings or identify patterns that a patient provides (whether PT takes meds regularly at home/how they sleep)