Definitions & the Nursing Process
The process of gathering information about the health status of the patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data, making judgments about nursing interventions based on the findings and evaluating patient care outcomes
What is health assessment?
Type of data where the patient lists their symptoms.
What is subjective?
The phase of the interview where are open-ended questions used
What is working phase?
Most important transmission prevention strategy
What is hand hygiene?
The part of the nursing process where the plan of action is created
what is intervention
Senses infrared emissions of tympanic
membrane
What is taking Temperature Tympanic
Membrane
Type of communication demonstrating caring and empathy.
What is therapeutic communication?
Type of technique that includes clinical touching of specific body areas to assess characteristics
What is palpation?
Part of the nursing process where judgment of nursing care efficacy is looked at in meeting patient goals and outcomes based on patient responses to nursing interventions
What is evaluation?
Type of assessment done during a life-threatening or unstable situation.
What is emergency?
Type of pain scale where the patient uses numbers from 0-10 (0 being no pain and 10 being the worst pain ever) to rate the intensity of their pain.
What is numerical scale?
Assessment technique through observing patients,which provides objective physical data leading to accurate diagnoses and treatment
What is inspection?
Complex combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills health care providers use to deliver care that considers the total context of the patient’s situation across cultural boundaries
What is cultural competence?
Tapping person’s skin with short, sharp strokes to assess
underlying structures
What is percussion
The most important thing to consider when interviewing a patient about violence and abuse.
What is the patient's patient physical and emotional safety?
This type of palpation should be done before deep palpation
The purpose for which nurses use assessment data
What is to identify patient outcomes/goals?
Listening to sounds
produced by body
What is auscultation
An emergent, life threatening, and immediate problem
What is a first- level priority
this part of the hands is best for fine tactile discrimination of skin
texture, swelling, pulsation, determining presence of
lumps