Nursing Process: Evaluation of Individual Plan of Care Quiz

Communication

• Nonverbal communication includes gestures, facial expressions, posture, body movement, voice tone, and volume, which are under less conscious control and provide a more accurate expression of one's inner thoughts and feelings.
• Verbal and nonverbal communication must be interpreted in a specific context to have meaning.

Factors Affecting Communication

• Internal factors: liking others, empathy, and ability to listen.
• External factors: physical setting, ensuring privacy, refusing interruptions, physical environment, dress, note-taking, tape and video recording, and intimate zone (0-1.5 feet).

Health Assessment

• Health teaching in a community focuses on few essential health patterns and is not comprehensive.
• It takes place after the initial assessment to evaluate any changes in the client's functional health.
• Time-lapsed reassessment is performed when substantial periods of time have elapsed between assessments.

Activities During Assessment

• Collecting data involves gathering information about the patient, considering physical, psychological, emotional, sociocultural, and spiritual factors that may affect their health status.
• Verifying data involves making sure the information is accurate and validating it.

Types of Data

• Subjective data comes from the client's point of view, including feelings, perceptions, and concerns, obtained through interviews.
• Objective data, also called signs, is observable and measurable data obtained through physical examination and laboratory and diagnostic testing.

Sources of Data

• Primary sources: the client, the client's family members, or health care providers.
• Secondary sources: medical records.

Evaluation

• Evaluation of the individual plan of care involves determining outcome achievement, identifying variables affecting outcome achievement, and deciding whether to continue, modify, or terminate the plan.
• Purpose: to appraise the extent to which goals and outcome criteria of nursing care have been achieved.

Methods of Data Collection

• Interview is a purposeful conversation between the nurse and the patient to gather subjective data, establish rapport, and teach the client about their health state.
• Purpose of interview: to gather organized, complete, and accurate data about the patient's health state, establish rapport, and teach the client about their health state.

This quiz assesses knowledge on evaluating individual plan of care in nursing, including determining outcome achievement and deciding whether to continue, modify, or terminate the plan. It also covers variables affecting outcome achievement and measuring client's response to nursing actions and progress towards goals.