Questions And Answers
Nursing process - ANS a systematic problem solving process that guides all nursing action.
Assessment - ANS - the data gathering phase
-you will obtain info from many sources. The client via history or physical exam, the client
record, lab or test results, other health professions, the client's family or support system.
Diagnosis - ANS - identify the client's health needs based on careful review of your
assessment data
-you need to analyze all of your data,synthesize and cluster info, and hypothesize about your
client's health status.
Planning - ANS - working with the client to decide goals for your care; the client outcomes
you want to achieve through your nursing activities.
Ex- nutritional status will improve as evidenced by a 3 lb gain
Intervention - ANS you develop a list of possible interventions based on your nursing
knowledge, and then choose the most likely to help the client achieve the stated goal
Implementation - ANS The action phase.
you will carry out or delegate the actions that you previously planned.
Evaluation - ANS you determine whether the desired outcomes have been achieved, and
judge whether your actions have successfully treated or prevented the client's health problems.
Comprehensive Assessment - ANS -provides holistic information about the client's overall
health status
-enables you to identify the client's problems and strength.
Focused Assessment - ANS -performed to obtain data about an actual, potential, or
possible problem that has been identified or is suspected.
Emergency assessment - ANS usually a life or death situation
NANDA - ANS Nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about individual, family or
community responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnosis