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health assessment

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Definition
Best Practice   a generic or general phrase for a process of infusing nursing practice with research-based knowledge  
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Biological Needs   requirements to maintain integrity of the patient's body systems  
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Clinical Judgment   The application of information based on actual observation of a patient combined with subjective and objective data that lead to a conclusion; the ability to make logical, rational decisions and decide whether a given action is right or wrong;  
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Clinical Judgment   involves problems solving, decision making, and critical thinking  
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Collaboration   to work cooperatively with a pt, significant support person, peers, other members of the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team, and community agencies to bring about solutions that balance differing needs, values for purpose to achieve positive outcome  
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Communicating needs   a complex, ongoing, interactive process that forms the basis for building interpersonal relationships; to establish the nurse-patient relationship, to be effective in expressing interest/concern for the pt. & family w/in the environment  
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Coordination of care   two or more people providing services to an individual or group and keeping all participants informed of their activities  
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Critical thinking   ability to reason out, in a purposeful and goal-directed manner, accuracy & logic of information in order to transform that information into applicable knowledge. Nurse's attitude, knowledge base, & skills determine the level of critical thinking  
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Cultural needs   requirements of the family unit and of the pt.'s life style, language, sexual, spiritual, and religious beliefs  
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Evidence based practice   integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise & pt/family preferences & values for delivery of optimal health care  
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Practice of evidence based nursing   integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systemic research  
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Health care settings   various health care environments in which the nurse assumes pt. care responsibilities. Includes acute care facilities, long term care agencies, outpt/inpt clinics, community based agencies, schools  
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Health maintenance   ability to sustain & preserve the present physical, mental & social well-being of an individual  
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Health promotion   active process that assists a person to develop those resources that will maintain or enhance well-being or improve the quality of life  
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Health restoration   process of restoring an individual to former state of health after any disease or injury that cause mental or physical impairment  
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Holistic   a practice that focuses on healing the whole person through the unity of body, mind, emotion, spirit, and environment  
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Scope of nursing practice   the actions, procedures, etc. that are permitted by law for a specific profession. Restricted to what the law permits based on specific experience and educational qualifications  
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Sociological needs   dealing with social questions or problems, focusing on cultural and environmental factors; financial and support system concerns of the pt.  
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