Clinical Judgment
This type of diagnosis relates to how a patient is dealing with their health condition.
What is a nursing diagnosis?
All nursing care uses this standard to determine the best way to care for a patient.
What is evidence-based practice?
Ensuring that the patient receives the right care from the right people at the right time in the right place in a safe and organized way.
What is management of care?
The way nurses think, act, and make decisions that demonstrate responsibility, ethical behavior, and respect for patients.
What is nursing professionalism?
Knowing what is right, fair, and respectful when caring for patients.
What are Ethics?
The body's physical and emotional response to demands, challenges, or changes.
What is stress?
This type of diagnosis is made by the doctor and involves the condition affecting the patient.
What is a medical diagnosis?
This form of research looks at numbers and statistics.
What is quantitative research?
Speaking up for patients and protecting their rights, safety, and well-being.
What is advocacy?
Guidelines provided by the American Nurses Association that describe ethical responsibilities and professional values of nurses.
What is the Nursing Code of Ethics?
The thoughts and actions a person uses to deal with stress, problems, or difficult situations.
What is coping?
This is the step of the nursing process where we monitor the patient's response to medication or intervention.
What is re-assessment/evaluation?
This form of research looks at patient surveys and interviews.
What is qualitative research?
Examples would be Hospitals, clinics, mental health facilities, and rehab facilities.
What are healthcare organizations?
A state law that defines the legal scope of nursing practice and protects the public.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Providing the patient enough appropriate information about a treatment, procedure, or intervention to make an educated decision about their care.
What is informed consent?
Talking with a trusted coworker, exercising, getting enough sleep, using relaxation or breathing, and asking for help when needed.
What are healthy coping behaviors?
This step of the nursing process is where the nurse looks at the collected data that has been analyzed and determines which issue is the most important to address first.
What is prioritizing hypotheses?
The most effective, safe, and proven ways to provide nursing care based on current evidence, professional standards, and clinical experience.
What are best practices?
The patient's care remains connected and consistent as the patient moves between healthcare providers or settings.
What is continuity of care?
Taking responsibility for becoming and remaining a competent nurse.
What is commitment to the profession?
Verifying that consent has been obtained, witnessing the patient's signature when required, making sure the patient appears to understand what they are signing, and notifying the provider if the patient has questions or does not understand.
What is the nurse's role in informed consent?
The ability to recover, adapt, and continue moving after stress, challenges, mistakes, or difficult experiences.
What is resilience?
In this step of the nursing process, the nurse performs a task.
What is taking action?
These must be considered in order for a patient to be an active participant in their care.
What are patient preferences and values?
Be treated with dignity and respect, given privacy, able to make decisions about their care, informed consent, and safe care are examples.
What are patients rights?
Promoting the health, dignity, well-being, and quality of life for patients, families, and communities.
what is human flourishing?
Doing what you believe is ethically right even when it is difficult, uncomfortable, or may cause conflict.
What is moral courage?
Using strategies to reduce or control the effects of stress.
What is stress management?