Nursing Process
First step in the Nursing Process where data is collected about a person
What is an assessment
Things the person tells you that you cannot observe.
Subjective data (symptoms)
Restating a person's message in your own words
What is paraphrasing?
Identification of a disease or condition by a doctor.
What is a medical diagnosis?
According to Maslow, the basic human need that is most essential
What are physical needs?
What consists of the Assessment, Nuring Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation & Evaluation
What is the Nursing Process?
Information you can see, hear, touch or smell (your senses)
Objective data (signs)
Communication that uses written or spoken words
What is verbal communication?
T or F Nursing diagnosis & medical diagnosis are the same thing.
What is false?
Your focus at work should be
What is the person's physical, psychological, social and spiritual well-being?
An action taken by the nursing team to help the person reach a goal.
What is implementation (nursing intervention)?
A cough is ____________ data
Objective data
When you say, "can you explain what that means," you are asking a person to...
What is clarify?
Pain is a sign or symptom
What is a symptom (subjective data)
Name 2 barriers to communcation
Using slang and whispering, yelling or mumbling
The part of the nursing process that describes a health problem that can be treated by nursing measures.
What is a nursing diagnosis?
Fever is _______________ data.
Objective data
Communication that does not use words
What is nonverbal communication?
Dry skin is a objective or subjective data
What is objective data (a sign)
The care plan is
written measures to help the person
The part of the nursing process that is ongoing?
What is Assessment?
Another name for symptoms
Another name for signs
Subjective data
Objective data
A nonverbal communication that conveys comfort, caring, loving, affection, interest, concern and reassurance.
What is touch?
Name one nursing diagnosis and one medical diagnosis
What is chronic pain and Cancer?
What is used to communicate the nursing tasks delegated to you?
The assignment sheet