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Nursing in Health and Illness

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A way of thinking and acting based on the scientific method   the nursing process  
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coverting info and establishing a care plan for each patient   process  
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Five components of the nursing process   Assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation  
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Assessment (data collection)   careful observation and evaluation of a patient's health status  
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Nursing diagnosis   identify actual or potential health problems  
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Prioritize problems, identify goals and document plan   planning  
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carry out nursing orders   implementation  
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evaluate care given   evaluation  
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Characteristics of nursing process   goals, prioritized, and dynamic  
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directed the nurse and the patient work together to achieve set goals   Goals  
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focused care resolves the health problems with the greatest risk first   Prioritize  
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always changing as the patient changes   Dynamic  
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Organize your data by   body systems  
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Signs   Vital signs, anything that can be measured  
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Symptoms   information that only the patient feels and can describe  
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Objective Data   Signs  
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Subjective Data   Symptoms  
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Breathing, how is the patient feeling, appearance, affect(mood), skin color   Initial observation  
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Level of consciousness, able to communicate, mental status, and appearance of eyes   Head  
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Temp, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure   Vital Signs  
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Listen to front and back   Auscultation lungs  
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Listen to lub-dub sounds S1 and S2   Auscultation of heart  
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shape, soft or hard, appetite, last BM, voiding status   Abdomen  
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Always look first, listen to all four quadrants, then feel   auscultation of bowel sounds  
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To legally chart no bowel sounds you must listen to each quadrant for how many minutes   five  
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Normal movement, skin turgor, temp, peripheral pulses, edema, cap refill   Extremities  
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The nursing diagnosis includes three parts   the name and cause of the problem, and the s/s  
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Collaborative problems are   potential complications  
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Nursing diagnosis defines   the patients response to illness  
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Medical diagnosis   labels the illness  
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NANDA identifies five types of nursing diagnosis   Actual, Risk, possible, syndrome, and wellness  
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Health issue that can be prevented, reduced, resolved, or enhanced through independent nursing measures   Nursing Diagnosis  
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a problem that currently exist   Actual  
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a problem the patient is uniquely at risk of developing   Risk  
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a problem may be present, but requires more data collection to rule out or confirm its existence   Possible  
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What two types of nursing diagnosis must include the problem, cause and s/s   Actual and Risk  
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cluster of problems predicted to be present because of an event of situation   Syndrome  
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a health related problem that the patient initiates with which a healthy person obtains nursing assistance to maintain or perform at a higher level   Wellness  
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placing nursing diagnosis/interventions in order of importance   Priority setting  
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life threatening problems   high priority  
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problems that threaten health or coping ability   Medium priority  
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problems that do not have a major effect on the person if not attended to that day or week   Low priority  
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the process of prioritizing nursing diagnosis and collaborative problems, identifying measurable goals and outcomes   Planning  
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while developing and revising the plan the nurse must   consult with the patient  
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a broad idea of what is to be achieved through nursing interventions   Goal  
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are those that are achievable within 7-10 days or before discharge   Short term goals  
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goals that take weeks or months to achieve   long term goals  
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are derived from the goals   expected outcomes  
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should also contain measurable criteria that can be evaluated to see whether the outcome has been achieved   expected outcomes  
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an expected outcome should be realistic and attainable and should   have a defined time line  
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Specific, Measurable, Attainable, realistic, and timed   SMART  
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state goals in a way that spells out the end result you want to achieve   Specific  
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how will you know when you have met your goal   Measurable  
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can the goal be met as stated   Attainable  
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can you reasonably expect to achieve your goal   Realistic  
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set a time frame for accomplishment and re-evaluation of your goal   Timed  
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planning the measures that the client and nurse will use to accomplish identified goals involves   critical thinking  
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are directed at eliminating etiologies   Nursing interventions  
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must be safe, within legal scope of practice, and compatible with medical orders   Nursing interventions  
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a concept of reason   Rational  
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all nursing interventions require a   scientific rational  
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can be hand written, standardized, computer generated, or based on an agency's written standards or clinical pathways   Plan of care  
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the plan of care should be reviewed and updated   once every 24 hours  
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the nurse shares the plan of care with   nursing team members, the client, and clients family  
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carrying out the written plan of care, performing the interventions, monitoring the patient's status and assessing and reassessing the client   Implementation  
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independent nursing diagnosis   needs no physicians order  
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dependent nursing diagnosis   needs a physicians order  
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deciding whether the interventions have helped the patient   Evaluation  
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it is the analysis of the client's response, evaluation helps determine the effectiveness of nursing care   Evaluation  
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if goals are not reached   the plan must be revised  
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will make nurses more efficient and effective at resolving situations   developing good critical thinking skills  
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a key feature is the ability to maintain a questioning attitude   Critical thinking  
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