Assessment
This vital sign is measured to assess a patient's respiratory status.
What is respiratory rate?
This type of nursing diagnosis describes a potential risk or vulnerability for developing a health problem.
What is a risk diagnosis?
This is an expected conclusion to a patient health problem, or in the event of a wellness diagnosis, an expected conclusion to a patients health expectation.
What is a patient outcome?
The service that qualifies health professionals deemed competent to perform and permit to undertake- in keeping with the terms of their professional license.
What is "scope of practice"
This type of improvement consists of systematic and continous actions that lead to measureable improvement in health care services and the health status of a targeted patient groups.
What is an Quality Improvement (QI)?
This technique involves touching and feeling various parts of the patient's body to gather data.
What is palpation?
This step involves analyzing the assessment data and identifying patterns or clusters of related data.
What is data clustering?
When does discharge planning begin?
What is on admission?
Written plans that detail the nursing activities to be executed in specific situations.
What is a protocol?
A special program that promotes excellence in nursing.
What is Quality Assurance programs?
This type of data is gathered from the patient's subjective reports and descriptions of their symptoms.
What is subjective data?
This type of nursing diagnosis describes a patient's readiness or motivation to enhance their health.
What is a health promotion diagnosis?
S.M.A.R.T stands for:
What is Smart goals, Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Bound.
Treatment that is performed through interaction with the patient's.
What is direct care intervention?
This type of evaluation focuses on the nature and sequence of activities carried out by nurses implementing the nursing process.
What is a process evaluation?
This tool can be used to assess a patient's level of pain on a numerical scale.
What is a pain rating scale?
Often used to denote significant data or data that influence this analysis.
What is a cue?
This is the process in which 2 or more people with varying degrees of experience and expertise discuss a problem and its solutions.
What is a consultation?
To Communicate to the patient that someone is concerned about them, challenge them to develop self-care strategies that promote holistic health
What is Nurse-patient relationship?
This step involves determining if the patient's goals were met and if any revisions to the plan of care are needed.
What is reassessment?
This type of assessment data is gathered through observation and measurement of objective findings.
What is objective data?
This type of nursing diagnosis describes a patient's response to an actual or potential health problem.
What is a problem-focused diagnosis?
The tools used in case management to communicate the standardized, interdisciplinary care plan for patients.
What is Clinical pathways or CareMaps or Critical Pathways?
Alfaro's Rules include:
What is assess, reassess, revise, record?
The five classic elements of evaluation are known for better clinical reasoning, judgment, and evaluation.
What is identifying criteria, collecting data, interpreting/summarizing finding, documenting judgement, and Terminating, continuing, or modifying the plan?