The Nursing Process
This is the collection of both subjective and objective data during the examination phase. It is the first and most critical phase of the process.
What is Assessment?
This principle says, "Do no harm."
What is nonmaleficence?
This assessment includes observations of patient speech, mood, and affect.
What is the assessment of behavior?
Taking multiple readings of blood pressure in supine, sitting, and standing positions.
What is orthostatic blood pressure assessment?
Two or more individuals who depend upon eachother for emotional, physical, and financial support.
What is a family?
This is the determination of whether treatment goals have been met, and whether the plan needs revision.
What is Evaluation?
This principle concerns respect for patient privacy.
What is confidentiality?
This is how the patient positions themself when sitting or standing.
What is posture?
It is pain that originates in one area and is felt in another area.
What is referred pain?
Assessment of the services available in a particular geographical area is a piece of this assessment.
What is community assessment?
This is the setting of patient goals and deciding on treatment interventions.
What is Planning?
This principles includes fair treatment for all patients.
What is justice?
These measurements provide objective data about what is happening inside the patient's body. They are a baseline assessment of health status.
What are vital signs?
This is the part of the autonomic nervous system that restores and maintains homeostasis and normal body functions.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This is controlling, coercive behavior toward a significant other; can be physical, emotional, sexual, or economic violence.
What is intimate partner violence?
This phase is carrying out the care plan and may include nursing and collaborative interventions.
What is Implementation?
This principle includes promoting the good of the patient.
What is beneficence?
This communication style involves active listening and the avoidance of judgement and disapproval.
What is therapeutic communication?
This is the preferred measurement of total body fat. The formula is weight in kilograms/height in meters squared.
What is BMI (body mass index)?
The addition of new skills. The refinement, expansion, or improvement of existing skills.
What is growth and development?
This is analyzing subjective and objective data to make a professional nursing judgement.
What is Nursing Diagnosis (or analysis)?
This principle assures the patient's right to make decisions, including the right to refuse treatment.
What is autonomy?
This is the most important assessment to make when evaluating a patient's pain.
What is the patient's own report or experience of pain?
This is acute confusion that comes and goes, usually has a specific cause.
What is delerium?
The belief that one's world view is the only acceptable truth and that one's values and behaviors are superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?