Nursing Process
This is the crucial final step of the nursing process that determines whether a patient's condition or well-being improved after nursing interventions were delivered.
What is Evaluation.
This type of intervention are treatments performed through interactions with patients.
What is direct care.
This is a harmful or unintended effect of a medication, diagnostic test, or therapeutic intervention.
What is Adverse Reaction
This requires cognitive, interpersonal, and psychomotor skills as you implement direct and indirect nursing interventions.
What is nursing practice.
Shopping, meal preparation, paying bills, taking medications, and home maintenance fall under this more complex category of self-care activities.
What are Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs)
Defined as the fourth step in the nursing process following planning. In this step interventions are worked out to achieve the goals and expected outcomes needed to support or improve the patient's health status.
What is Implementation
This refers to activates that support daily life and are oriented toward interacting with the environment.
What is Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)
These are events that occur due to error or failure to apply an accepted strategy for prevention. (e.g. pressure injury)
During implementation you apply these skills to ensure that all of your nursing actions are thoughtful and person-centered.
What are Cognitive skills.
This type of care includes documentation, delegation to assistive personnel, hand-off reports, specimen transport, and environmental safety management—all performed without direct patient contact.
What is Indirect Care.
Name two of the domains of nursing practice.
These evidence-based sets of 3–5 interventions, when performed together reliably, have a greater impact on preventing complications than when done individually (e.g., for central line infections or ventilator-associated pneumonia).
What are care bundles.
These are events that while not preventable could have been less harmful if care had been different.
What is Ameliorable Event
This is essential when delivering any nursing intervention. You use this to develop a trusting relationship with your patient. You also use this to keep your patient informed and engaged in care.
What is Interpersonal Communication Skills.
For a patient with dementia, a nurse should divide tasks into simple steps, explain in easy words, avoid pointing out mistakes, and match the level of assistance to the patient's changing ability during these activities.
What are ADLs.
Any treatment a nurse performs to enhance patient outcomes, requiring clinical judgment and knowledge, and classified as direct or indirect care.
What is a nursing intervention.
This University of Iowa–developed system provides a standardized language for nursing treatments, helps differentiate nursing from other disciplines, and is commonly built into health information systems for documentation, communication, and research.
Nursing Interventions Classification (or NIC)
This type of event occurs due to care that falls below the standards expected of clinicians.
What is negligence
This requires the integration of cognitive and motor activities
What is Psychomotor Skills
Nurses assess skin condition, check temperature, and inspect every 5 minutes for redness or maceration to prevent this harmful unintended effect when applying a moist heat compress.
What is Adverse Reaction
According to Benner (1984), this domain of nursing practice includes activities like one-to-one patient education sessions or using a TV video program for teaching.
What is teaching-coaching function.
These nationally or professionally developed recommendations are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of benefits versus harms, and are used to optimize care for frequently recurring problems such as pressure injury prevention or DVT prevention
What is clinical practice guidelines.
This type of event results in death, severe harm, or permanent harm.
This specific interpersonal action is described as particularly important because patients want the nurse to hear their stories, which can provide useful assessment data and guide intervention delivery.
What is listening
This process requires clinical judgment, two-way communication, and ongoing supervision; an RN uses it to direct tasks like hygiene or vital signs to assistive personnel while retaining accountability for the nursing process.
What is Delegation