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Health Safety-Week 1

Key Terms

QuestionAnswer
Critical thinking a cognitive process that includes creativity, problem solving and decision-making
Critical analysis a set of questions one can apply to a particular situation or idea to determine essential information and ideas and discard superfluous information and ideas
Inductive reasoning making generalizations from specific data
Deductive reasoning making specific observations from a generalization
Problem solving obtaining information that clarifies the nature of a problem and suggests possible solutions
Decision making the process of establishing criteria by which alternative courses of action are developed and selected
Nursing process a systematic rational method of planning and providing nursing care
Assessing the process of collecting, organizing, validating, and recording data about a client’s health status
Planning an ongoing process that involves assessing, establishing goals, developing a plan of action, deteries deadlines, describes how outcomes are to be achieved and evaluated
Implementing the phase of the nursing process in which the nursing care plan in put into action
Evaluating a planned, ongoing, purposeful activity in which clients and health care professionals compare expected outcomes to actual outcomes
Directive interview a highly structured interview that uses closed questions to elicit specific information
Non-directive interview an interview using open-ended questions and empathetic responses to build rapport and learn client concerns
Open-ended questions questions that specify only a broad topic and invite clients to explore thoughts and feelings about the topic
Nursing diagnosis the nurse’s clinical judgment about responses to actual and potential health problems to provide the basis for selecting nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable
Risk diagnosis clinical judgment that a problem does not exist, but the presence of risk factors indicates a problem is likely to develop unless nurse intervene
Wellness diagnosis describes human responses to levels of wellness that have a readiness for enhancement
Possible diagnosis one in which evidence about a health problem is incomplete or unclear
Syndrome diagnosis a diagnosis that is associated with a cluster of other diagnoses
Diagnostic label title used in writing a nursing diagnosis taken from the NANDA standardized taxonomy of terms
Defining characteristics client signs and symptoms that must be present to validate a nursing diagnosis
Etiology the causal relationship between a problem and its related factors
NANDA North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
Created by: maseh2os
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