Process acquired only through experience, commitment, and an active curiosity toward learning.
What is critical thinking?
100
Deliberate and systematic collection of information about a patient to determine his or her current and past health and functional status and their present and past coping patterns.
What is a nursing assessment?
100
Clinical judgement...
(information from the nursing assessment…
subjective/objective)…which
Identifies the patient’s problems and strengths…
leading to a…
‘Problem statement’(actual or potential that requires
nursing intervention)…
What is a nursing diagnosis?
100
A visual representation of patient problems and interventions that illustrates an interrelationship
What is a concept map
100
identification of a disease based on a specific evaluation...of physical signs, symptoms, etc. ....
What is a medical diagnosis?
200
Separates professional nurses from technicalpersonnel.
What is Clinical decision making?
200
Collection of information from a primary and secondary source...
Interpretation and validation of the data to ensure a complete database...
What are the 2 steps involved in the nursing assessment?
200
Actual...
Risk...
Health Promotion...
List 3 types of nursing diagnosis...
200
"My pain level is 8/10"
"I am depressed"
"I have not had a bowel movement in 3 days"
What is subjective information?
200
Clinical judgement made about an individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health problems or life processes....
What are some tools nurses use for critical thinking?
300
’groups together’ gathered information
according to ‘Maslow’s Basic Human Model’...
Helps to identify nursing diagnosis pertinent to the patient…
It helps to maintain a nursing focus...allowing patterns to be recognized...
What does the nursing diagnostic process require of the nurse?
400
Needed by nurses at every level from novice to expert.
What is critical thinking?
400
Verbal and non-verbal
What are the 2 types of communication?
400
Has not occurred yet…
Likely to develop if you do not intervene to prevent it...
Diagnosis defined by the presence of risk factors...rather than defining characteristics…
What is a 'risk diagnosis'?
400
Problem: Acute Pain
R/T: Fx Bilateral Femurs
AEB: moaning, grimacing
8/10 on pain scale
BP: 168/90; P: 92
What is an example of a 3-part nursing diagnosis?
400
Because of 2 patients' health problems are the same...
Why do we as nurses apply critical thinking differently to each patient?
500
Asks 'why?'
What do I know about this patient?
What are my options regarding this patient?
What is important in this clinical situation?
What questions does a critical thinking nurse ask?
500
subjective
objective
What are 2 types of data?
500
The recognition of one’s desire, readiness, or motivation to increase ‘well-being’…