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Essentials of Nursing Care: Health Safety
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Nondirective 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 |
| Critical thinking | a cognitive process that includes creativity, problem solving and decision-making |