Chapter 1-2
Examine needs/motivation for change as well as forces that make change easier or more difficult
What is unfreezing?
Pessimism, nit picking, worrying, perfectionism, blaming
What are self-defeating behaviors?
Identifying the main idea
What is one way to improve reading?
Immediate, intermediate, and long-term goals are identified with the patient and family and the outcomes are specific, realistic, and measurable and written in positive, patient-centered terms.
What is outcome identification?
Integration of the best available evidence, combined with clinical expertise, enabling health practitioners of all varieties to address health care questions with an evaluative and qualitative approach
What is evidence based practice?
Actively plan changes and take action on them; deal with both positive and negative forces; make modifications
What is moving?
Decision making, planning, commitment, time management
What are four key habits for success?
The five step method to thoroughly study is comprised of
What is survey, question, read, recite, review
Carrying out of the plan of care
What is implementation?
Measures the degree to which an instrument is measuring what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
Becomes an integral part of who you are and what you do
What is refreezing?
What is catharsis?
A person may have as few as 75 or as many as 265
What are the number of questions on the NCLEX-RN?
Visual representation of client’s pathophysiology, treatments, and nursing needs
What is concept mapping?
When a nurse engages in a helping relationship with a patient and family
What is therapeutic communication?
Be conscious and understand yourself
What is self awareness?
Something you can do to solve the problem
What is direct action?
Identifies the responsibilities of nurses, depending on their educational preparation and licensure and is defined by individual state practice acts.
What is scope of practice?
Experiencing frustration because the expectations of differing roles are in opposition
What is role conflict?
Orientation, working, termination
What are the phases of the nurse-patient relationship?
Describes where you believe the power in your life resides
What is locus of control?
Plan but never implement. Spend so much time planning that you never get anything done.
What is paralysis by planning?
uCare provider
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uEducator
uManager
Change agent, role model, mentor, researcher, entrepreneur, advocate, collaborator,
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What are the role elements of the RN?
Purposeful, goal-directed process of inquiry that uses available facts, principles, theories, and abstractions to analyze, make inferences, solve problems, or arrive at decisions
What is critical thinking?
Ability to provide care to diverse cultures competently
What is cultural competence?