Essentials for Nursing Practice 8th Ch. 9 Study
Guide Graded A+
1). Assessment
Ans: The first step of the nursing process. The activities required in the first step are
data collection, data validation, data sorting, and data documentation. The purpose is to
gather information for health problem identification.
2). Back- channeling
Ans: An active listening technique that prompts a respondent to continue telling a story
or describing a situation.This iInvolves use of phrases such as "Go on," "Uh huh," and "Tell
me more."
3). Clinical practice guideline
Ans: or protocol is a systematically developed set of statements that helps nurses and
other health care providers make decisions about appropriate health care for specific
clinical situations.
4). Closed-ended questions
Ans: A question that limits the patient's answers to one or two words, and is used to
clarify previous information or provide additional information.
5). Collaborative problem
Ans: The actual or potential physiological complications that can result from disease,
trauma, treatment, or diagnostic studies for which nurses intervene in collaboration with
personnel of other health care disciplines.
6). Collaborative interventions
Ans: The therapies that require the knowledge, skill, and expertise of multiple health
care professionals.
Concept map
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, 7).
Ans: A visual representation of patient problems and interventions that shows their
relationships to each other. Metacognitive tool that assists learners in developing a self-
appraisal of their own individual thinking processes and in considering the context of
nursing practice in the conceptualization of patient problems.
8). Consultation
Ans: The process in which the help of a specialist is sought to identify ways to handle
problems in patient management or in the planning and implementing of programs.
9). Counseling
Ans: A problem-solving method that is used to help patients recognize and manage
stress and to enhance interpersonal relationships. It helps patients examine alternatives
and decide which choices are most helpful and appropriate.
10). Critical pathways
Ans: A tool used in managed care that incorporates the treatment interventions of
caregivers from all disciplines who normally care for a patient. Designed for a specific
case type, a pathway is used to manage the care of a patient throughout a projected
length of stay
11). Cue
Ans: The information that a nurse acquires through hearing, visual observations, touch,
and smell.
12). Data analysis
Ans: The logical examination of and professional judgment about patient assessment
data, which is used in the diagnostic process to derive a nursing diagnosis.
13). Data cluster
Ans: A set of signs or symptoms that are grouped together in logical order.
14). Database
Ans: (1) The information about a patient's level of health, health practices, past
illnesses, present illnesses, and physical examination combined to serve as the basis for
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Guide Graded A+
1). Assessment
Ans: The first step of the nursing process. The activities required in the first step are
data collection, data validation, data sorting, and data documentation. The purpose is to
gather information for health problem identification.
2). Back- channeling
Ans: An active listening technique that prompts a respondent to continue telling a story
or describing a situation.This iInvolves use of phrases such as "Go on," "Uh huh," and "Tell
me more."
3). Clinical practice guideline
Ans: or protocol is a systematically developed set of statements that helps nurses and
other health care providers make decisions about appropriate health care for specific
clinical situations.
4). Closed-ended questions
Ans: A question that limits the patient's answers to one or two words, and is used to
clarify previous information or provide additional information.
5). Collaborative problem
Ans: The actual or potential physiological complications that can result from disease,
trauma, treatment, or diagnostic studies for which nurses intervene in collaboration with
personnel of other health care disciplines.
6). Collaborative interventions
Ans: The therapies that require the knowledge, skill, and expertise of multiple health
care professionals.
Concept map
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, 7).
Ans: A visual representation of patient problems and interventions that shows their
relationships to each other. Metacognitive tool that assists learners in developing a self-
appraisal of their own individual thinking processes and in considering the context of
nursing practice in the conceptualization of patient problems.
8). Consultation
Ans: The process in which the help of a specialist is sought to identify ways to handle
problems in patient management or in the planning and implementing of programs.
9). Counseling
Ans: A problem-solving method that is used to help patients recognize and manage
stress and to enhance interpersonal relationships. It helps patients examine alternatives
and decide which choices are most helpful and appropriate.
10). Critical pathways
Ans: A tool used in managed care that incorporates the treatment interventions of
caregivers from all disciplines who normally care for a patient. Designed for a specific
case type, a pathway is used to manage the care of a patient throughout a projected
length of stay
11). Cue
Ans: The information that a nurse acquires through hearing, visual observations, touch,
and smell.
12). Data analysis
Ans: The logical examination of and professional judgment about patient assessment
data, which is used in the diagnostic process to derive a nursing diagnosis.
13). Data cluster
Ans: A set of signs or symptoms that are grouped together in logical order.
14). Database
Ans: (1) The information about a patient's level of health, health practices, past
illnesses, present illnesses, and physical examination combined to serve as the basis for
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