Collecting, organizing, documenting, and validating data about a patient's health status
What is a patient assessment?
100
Designated as the staff member who performs the initial admission nursing assessment.
What is the Registered Nurse?
100
On Hand we have 0.25 mg of Digoxin.
The Doctor orders 750 mcg to give to your patient.
You will give three tablets
200
Away of thinking and acting based on a scientific method
What is the nursing process?
200
Data obtained from the patient verbally.
What is subjective data?
300
Directed, purposeful, mental activity by which you evaluate ideas, construct plans, and determine desired outcomes.
What is critical thinking?
300
This assessment is used to identify abnormalities and eliminate potential health issues.
What is a focused assessment?
400
This is when nurses carry out interventions or put the plan in action.
What is nursing implementation?
400
Pieces of data and information that influence decisions.
What are cues?
500
Places nursing diagnoses or nursing interventions in order of importance.
What is prioritizing?
500
Indicates the patient's actual health status or risk of a problem developing, the causative or related factors, and specific defining characteristics (signs and symptoms)