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Which of the following factors should be considered when setting desired outcomes for a client? (Select all that apply)
Goals must be derived from more than one nursing diagnosis.
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What is an example of an independent nursing intervention?
Physical care, ongoing assessment, emotional support, health teaching.
The type of intervention that requires orders from a licensed physician is called a ______ intervention.
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Match the types of nursing interventions with their descriptions:
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Which of the following is NOT a component of evaluation in the nursing process?
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What is the first step in the process of implementing nursing interventions?
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What is the nursing process?
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Who originated the term nursing process?
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The nursing process consists of strictly separated phases.
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The purposes of the nursing process include identifying a client’s health status and ________ health care problems or needs.
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What are the five phases of the nursing process?
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Match the types of assessment with their purpose.
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What are subjective data?
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Objective data can only be obtained through the client's verbal reports.
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________ data are detectable by an observer or can be measured.
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What is the purpose of validating data in the nursing process?
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Which of the following are components of a NANDA nursing diagnosis?
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Nursing diagnoses are the same as medical diagnoses.
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What is the difference between actual and risk nursing diagnoses?
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The nursing process includes ________, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.
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Study Notes
Nursing Process
- A systematic, rational method of planning and providing individualized nursing care
- Purposes:
- Identify client's health status and actual or potential health care problems or needs
- Establish plans to meet the identified needs
- Deliver specific nursing interventions to meet those needs
- Client may be an individual, family, community, or group
Phases of Nursing Process
- Assessment: collection, organization, validation, and documentation of data
- Diagnosing: interpreting assessment data and identifying client strengths and problems
- Planning: developing a plan of care to address client problems
- Implementing: carrying out the plan of care
- Evaluating: determining the effectiveness of the plan of care
- Phases are cyclical, overlapping, and interrelated
Assessment
- Systematic and continuous collection, organization, validation, and documentation of data
- Types of assessments:
- Initial assessment
- Problem-focused assessment
- Emergency assessment
- Time-lapsed reassessment
- Data collection:
- Subjective data (symptoms, perceived by the client)
- Objective data (signs, observable by others)
- Constant data (does not change over time)
- Variable data (changes over time)
- Sources of data:
- Primary sources (client, client's records)
- Secondary sources (support people, healthcare professionals, literature)
- Data collection methods:
- Observing
- Interviewing (directive and nondirective approaches)
- Examining (physical examination)
- Organizing data:
- Using a written or electronic format that organizes the assessment data systematically
- Conceptual models/frameworks (e.g., Gordon's Functional Health Patterns)
- Wellness models
- Non-nursing models
- Validating data:
- Verifying data to confirm accuracy and factualness
- Ensuring completeness and accuracy of assessment information
- Avoiding jumping to conclusions and focusing on the wrong direction to identify problems
- Documenting data:
- Recording client data in a factual manner
- Avoiding interpretation by the nurse
- Using quotation marks for subjective data
Diagnosing
- Interpreting assessment data and identifying client strengths and problems
- NANDA International:
- Defines, refines, and promotes taxonomy of nursing diagnostic terminology
- Provides standardized names for nursing diagnoses (diagnostic labels)
- Nursing diagnosis:
- A clinical judgment concerning a human response to health conditions/life processes, or a vulnerability for that response
- Actual, health promotion, risk, and syndrome diagnoses
- Components of a NANDA nursing diagnosis:
- Problem (diagnostic label) and definition
- Etiology (related factors and risk factors)
Note: The above notes focus on the key concepts, definitions, and details related to the nursing process, assessment, and diagnosing phases.### The Importance of Differentiating Among Possible Causes in Nursing Diagnosis
- Differentiating among possible causes in nursing diagnosis is essential because each may require different nursing interventions.
- Example: Bed rest or immobility may lead to generalized weakness, requiring different interventions.
Defining Characteristics of Nursing Diagnosis
- Defining characteristics are the cluster of signs and symptoms that indicate the presence of a particular diagnostic label.
- For actual diagnoses, defining characteristics are the client's signs and symptoms.
- For risk nursing diagnoses, there are no subjective and objective signs present.
- Example: Verbal report of fatigue or weakness.
Nursing Diagnosis vs. Medical Diagnosis
- Nursing diagnosis:
- A statement of nursing judgment that refers to a condition that nurses are licensed to treat.
- Describes the human response, a client's physical, sociocultural, psychological, and spiritual responses to an illness or health problem.
- Medical diagnosis:
- Made by a physician and refers to a condition that only a physician can treat.
- Refers to disease processes—specific pathophysiologic responses that are fairly uniform from one client to another.
The Diagnostic Process
- Analyzing data:
- Comparing data with standards (identify significant cues).
- Clustering cues (generate tentative hypothesis).
- Identifying gaps and inconsistencies.
- Identifying health problems, risks, and strengths:
- After data analysis, nurse and client identify strengths and problems.
- Determine problems that support tentative actual, risk, and possible diagnoses.
- Determine whether the client's problem is a nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis, or collaborative problem.
Formulating Diagnostic Statements
- Most nursing diagnoses are written as two-part or three-part statements.
- Basic two-part statements:
- Problem (P): statement of the client's response (NANDA label).
- Etiology (E): factors contributing to or probable causes of the responses.
- Basic three-part statements (PES format):
- Problem (P): statement of the client's response (NANDA label).
- Etiology (E): factors contributing to or probable causes of the responses.
- Signs and symptoms (S): defining characteristics manifested by the client.
- One-part statements:
- Used for health promotion diagnoses and syndrome nursing diagnoses, consisting of a NANDA label only.
Planning
- Planning involves decision making and problem solving.
- Nursing interventions: any treatment, based on clinical judgment and knowledge, that a nurse performs to enhance patient or client outcomes.
- The end product of the planning phase is the client care plan.
- Planning is a deliberative, systematic phase that involves:
- Setting priorities.
- Establishing client goals/desired outcomes.
- Selecting nursing interventions and activities.
Characteristics of a Plan
- Specific.
- Measurable.
- Attainable.
- Realistic.
- Time-bound.
Developing a Nursing Care Plan
- Formal or informal plan of care.
- Informal nursing care plan: a strategy for action that exists in the nurse's mind.
- Formal nursing care plan: a written or computerized guide that organizes information about the client's care.
- Standardized care plan: a formal plan that specifies the nursing care for groups of clients with common needs.
- Individualized care plan: tailored to meet the unique needs of a specific client.
Guidelines for Writing Nursing Care Plans
- Date and sign the plan.
- Use category headings.
- Use standardized symbols and keywords.
- Be specific.
- Refer to procedure books or other sources of information.
- Tailor the plan to the unique characteristics of the client.
- Ensure that the nursing plan incorporates preventive and health maintenance aspects.
- Ensure that the plan contains ongoing assessment of the client.
- Include collaborative and coordination activities.
- Include plans for the client's discharge and home care needs.
The Planning Process
- Activities:
- Setting priorities.
- Establishing client goals/desired outcomes.
- Selecting nursing interventions and activities.
- Factors to consider in setting priorities:
- Client's health values and beliefs.
- Client's priorities.
- Resources available to the nurse and client.
- Urgency of the health problem.
- Medical treatment plan.
The Nursing Outcome Classification (NOC)
- A taxonomy developed to describe client outcomes that respond to nursing interventions.
- Standardized common nursing language is required in the taxonomy.
- Each NOC outcome is assigned a four-digit identifier and definition.
- Indicators are stated in neutral terms, and each outcome includes a five-point scale to rate the client's status.
Writing Desired Outcomes
- Write goals and outcomes in terms of client responses, not nursing activities.
- Make sure desired outcomes are realistic for the client's capabilities, limitations, and designated time span.
- Ensure that desired outcomes are compatible with the therapies of other professionals.
- Make sure each goal is derived from only one nursing diagnosis.
- Use observable, measurable terms for outcomes.
- Make sure the client considers the goals/desired outcomes important and values them.
Implementing Nursing Interventions
- Action phase in which the nurse performs the nursing interventions.
- Consists of doing and documenting the activities that are specific nursing actions needed to carry out the interventions.
- Skills required:
- Cognitive skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Technical skills.
Guidelines for Implementing Nursing Interventions
- Base nursing interventions on scientific knowledge, nursing research, and professional standards of care (evidence-based practice) when these exist.
- Clearly understand the interventions to be implemented and question any that are not understood.
- Adapt activities to the individual client.
- Implement safe care.
- Provide teaching, support, and comfort.
- Be holistic.
- Respect the dignity of the client and enhance the client's self-esteem.
- Encourage clients to participate actively in implementing the nursing interventions.
Evaluating
- A planned, ongoing, purposeful activity in which clients and HCPs determine:
- Client's progress towards achievement of goals or outcomes.
- Effectiveness of the NCP.
- Continuous process.
- Five components of evaluation:
- Collecting data related to the desired outcomes.
- Comparing the data with the desired outcomes.
- Relating nursing activities to outcomes.
- Drawing conclusions about problem status.
- Continuing, modifying, or terminating the nursing care plan.
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