Clinical Decision Making
The process nurses use to evaluate and select best actions to meet desired goals.
What is clinical decision making?
Gathering data.
What is assessment?
Disclosure of an employer's unsafe or illegal practices and/or policies by an employee.
What is whistleblowing?
What is a priority?
Guideline that organizes information about client's care.
What is the nursing plan of care?
All part of the process of questioning, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, inference, reasoning, application and creativity.
What is critical thinking?
What are components of a nursing diagnosis?
Doing things right.
What is efficiency?
Incorporating prevention, including ongoing assessment, collaborative activities, discharge planning and health teaching needs.
What are guidelines for writing a nursing care plan.
indicate negative, positive change in client's health status; varies from norms of client population; can indicate developmental delay.
The nurse in charge identifies a patient’s response to actual or potential health problems during which step of the nursing process?
What is diagnosing?
Conduct deviating from standard of practice dictated by the profession.
The last thing prioritized after education.
What is a column plan?
Action of making sense of occurrences, situations, or decisions by carefully considering totality of experience.
What is reflection?
The nurse informs the physical therapy department that the client is too weak to use a walker and needs to be transported by wheelchair. Which step of the nursing process is the nurse engaged in at this time?
Implementation
Laws made by state boards of nursing.
Highest level in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
A visual representation and holistic view of the client.
What is a concept map?
Use of nursing knowledge, experience, expertise for understanding without conscious use of reasoning.
What is intuition or "gut reaction"?
Collecting objective data to determine the extent to which goals were achieved.
Amount of time that can pass between recognition of harm and bringing suit.
Threats to a patient's immediate survival or safety and demand immediate nursing intervention.
What are First Level Patient Problems?
Includes checklists, blank lines, or empty spaces.
What is a standardized plan?