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Civility - ✔✔Acting politely
Bioethics - ✔✔The study of ethical and philosophical issues in the biology and medicine
Critical Thinking - ✔✔the ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with
openness to question and reflect on the reasoning process
Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgement Skills - ✔✔Interpretation
Analysis
Inference
Evaluation
Explanation
Self-Regulation
Scientific Method - ✔✔Nurses use to test research, looks for truth, or verifies that a set
of facts agrees with reality.
Five steps of the scientific method - ✔✔- identifying the problem
- collecting data
- forming a question or hypothesis
- testing the question or hypothesis
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, - evaluating results of the test or study
Problem Solving - ✔✔Evaluating the solution over time to make sure it is effective
Diagnostic Reasoning - ✔✔analytical process for determining a patient's health
problems
Inference - ✔✔The process of drawing conclusions from related pieces of evidence and
previous experience with the evidence
Knowing the patient - ✔✔an in-depth knowledge of a patient's patterns of responses
within a clinical situation and knowing the patient as a person
Nursing Process - ✔✔five-step systematic method for giving patient care; involves
assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating
Purpose of the Nursing Process - ✔✔to diagnose and treat human responses to actual or
potential health problems
What does a clinical interview do? - ✔✔Helps get a detailed history of the patients
problem and provide care accordingly
Probing - ✔✔Explores the history of the patient without controlling the direction of the
story and is meant to bring out as much information as the patient can give
Leading Question - ✔✔is meant to control the direction of the story
What kind of question is used to start assessment? - ✔✔Open Ended Questions
what does the PES format stand for - ✔✔Problem, Etiology, Symptoms
Sources of Diagnostic Error - ✔✔- data collection
- data clustering
- interpretation and analysis of data
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