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What is the primary focus of the assessment step in the nursing process?
What is the primary focus of the assessment step in the nursing process?
Which of the following can be considered a health deficit?
Which of the following can be considered a health deficit?
What is a primary component of the planning step in the nursing process?
What is a primary component of the planning step in the nursing process?
What does the implementation/intervention step involve?
What does the implementation/intervention step involve?
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Which of the following represents a health threat?
Which of the following represents a health threat?
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During evaluation, which aspect is assessed?
During evaluation, which aspect is assessed?
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What does the foreseeable crisis category pertain to?
What does the foreseeable crisis category pertain to?
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Which step involves coordinating care and utilizing community resources?
Which step involves coordinating care and utilizing community resources?
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Study Notes
The Nursing Process
- Collection and processing of data/information about the client
- Steps include initiating contact, demonstrating caring attitudes, and collecting data from all possible sources
Categories of Health Problems
- Health deficit: a gap between actual and achievable health status.
- Precursors of health deficit: history of recurrent infections, miscarriages, and lack of regular health check-ups
- Examples: illness states (diagnosed or undiagnosed), failure to thrive, disability, transient/permanent conditions
Health Threat
- Conditions leading to disease, accidents, or unrealized potential
- Examples: hereditary disease, cross-infection threat, accident hazards, poor eating habits, environmental sanitation issues, unhealthy lifestyle
Foreseeable Crisis
- Anticipated periods of heightened demand on the individual or family, requiring adaptation and resource management
- Examples: marriage, pregnancy, parenthood, divorce, job loss, menopause, death
Planning
- Formulating steps to achieve desired outcomes
- Prioritizing needs, establishing goals, constructing action plans, devising evaluation parameters, revising plans as needed
Implementation/Intervention
- Putting the nursing plan into action
- Coordinating care and services, utilizing community resources, delegating and supervising tasks, monitoring health services, providing health education and training, documenting nursing actions
Evaluation
- Assessing the extent to which objectives are met
- Examining care outcomes, performance appraisal, cost-benefit ratio, assessment problems, identifying necessary alterations, revising plans
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This quiz covers the nursing process, including data collection and health problem categorization. Explore concepts related to health deficits, threats, and foreseeability of crises in healthcare contexts to assess your understanding of essential nursing practices.
