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 type of goal addresses the patient's physiological needs, such as maintaining adequate hydration or nutrition.
What is a physiological goal?
This nursing intervention involves administering medications to the patient according to the prescribed dosage and route.
What is medication administration?
This type of evaluation assesses the patient's progress towards achieving the established goals.
What is an outcome evaluation?
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?
This principle guides the development of nursing interventions that are consistent with the patient's cultural beliefs and values.
What is cultural competence?
This type of nursing intervention involves providing comfort measures, such as positioning, massage, or heat/cold therapy.
What is a comfort intervention?
This principle guides the nurse to involve the patient and their family in the evaluation of the plan of care's effectiveness.
What is patient/family participation?
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?
This type of goal addresses the patient's psychological or emotional needs, such as reducing anxiety or improving coping skills.
What is a psychosocial goal?
This principle guides the nurse to involve the patient and their family in the implementation of the plan of care.
What is patient/family collaboration?
This type of evaluation assesses the appropriateness and quality of the nursing interventions implemented.
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?
This diagnostic reasoning process involves considering multiple possible diagnoses and ruling out unlikely ones.
What is differential diagnosis?
This principle ensures that the plan of care is tailored to the patient's unique needs, preferences, and circumstances.
What is individualization?
This type of nursing intervention involves teaching the patient or their family about their condition, treatment, or self-care activities.
What is patient/family education?
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?
This type of goal addresses the patient's knowledge or skills related to self-care or health management.
What is an educational goal?
This nursing intervention involves monitoring the patient's vital signs, laboratory values, or other clinical indicators.
What is patient monitoring?
This principle ensures that the evaluation process is ongoing and continuous throughout the nursing care process.
What is continuous evaluation?