Nursing Process
The nursing process is related to the OREM model
True or False
True
What can be used to gather data from a client?
Health History
Along with gathering information about a patient what can the nursing interview be used for?
Establishing a helping communication with a patient
What's an Ecomap?
To understand how connected the family is with other resources, to understand that family's level of satisfaction, to understand that family support network. Depicts the dynamic nature of the relationships and stressors and extended family members, work colleagues or friends
Most client errors are due to ____ _________ between nurses and doctors.
Poor communication
What's the purpose of the assessment phase of the nursing process?
The assessment phase of the nursing process is to gather data about the patient.
Data should rarely be checked with a patients baseline due to patients baseline being irrelevant when a patient is feeling unwell.
True or False
false
Can I write down my interpretation of what a patient said?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
When would a patient feel disconnected from a nurse?
When a nurse isn't friendly, gentle, attentive or caring. Also when a nurse doesn't want to help, ignores needs, acts angry or frustrated.
What's the difference between the styles of communication between a nurse and a doctor?
Nurses a taught to be descriptive in their communication and doctors are taught to be brief to the point and focused on the problem
What are the 3 major categories of nursing interventions?
Cognitive interventions (teaching, supervising)
Interpersonal interventions (psychosocial, supportive, coordinating)
Technical interventions (monitoring, psychomotor, maintenance)
Discharge planning only gets started when a client is starting to feel better.
True or false
False, discharge planning begins when a patient is admitted.
What should a nurse do before starting a nursing interview?
Make a plan about the interview
There's a saying about health healthcare staff about experiencing hospitalization. What is it?
Staff make or break a patients stay
Is being submissive a trait of being assertive?
No
The step of the nursing process where the nurse looks at the patients health history
Assessment
Mr. Brady is 44 years old, eats a very healthy diet, exercises everyday, has had a history of concussions from playing professional football for 22 years , tore his ACL in 2008, he speaks Portuguese's, has 2 sons and 1 daughter, attended Michigan University but did not graduate. What data can we take as nurses to be put in health history.
Everything
Nurse Bruno is growing inpatient with a patients slow responses to the questions he's asking. He puts on a smile and tells the patient to "take your time" and also says "I'm not in a rush" Is nurse Bruno being a good nurse in this scenario?
Discuss
What are the three prominent themes patients experience in an acute care hospital environment?
Disconnection vs connection
Fear vs less fear
Confinement versus freedom
What are the three common disruptive behaviors?
Incivility
Lateral violence
Bullying
Dr. Roberts says to you the reason why Mrs.Carr is admitted to the hospital is because she had a cerebrovascular accident, but her charts says the reason she is admitted is because she hit her little toe on a door. Is this an example of clustering data?
No, clustering data is grouping or clustering data into ,meaningful patterns.
Mr. Rodgers is reading a news paper, but you see a bad rash on his arms and fingers. Mr. Rodgers doesn't seem to notice that he has a rash. Is this objective data or subjective data?
Mr. Rodgers also says to you he feels like his arms are getting a little "toasty". Is this objective or subjective data?
Objective
Subjective
Can I take objective data from a nursing interview as well as subjective data?
Yes absolutely
nurses being right there for the patient, leaving the door of the room open, wide open spaces, windows are aspects of the hospital that provide the sense of ______
Freedom
Nurses get bullied and verbally abused by physicians. That's why so many nurses leave the profession.
True or False
True