Priorities in Nursing and Nursing Process
What are First-level priority problems
Airway problems; breathing problems; cardiac and circulation problems; Signs (vital signs concerns)
Name the element of the nursing process that evaluates the patient such as taking patients vital signs, breath sounds and physical examination.
What is an Assessment?
Planning includes
writing a care plan to meet the goals
health promotion model, focuses on
Helping the client choose a healthier lifestyle
True/false: Magnet hospitals have high turnover rates.
What is False?
What are Second-level priority problems
Mental status change; Acute pain; acute urinary elimination problems; untreated medical problems requiring immediate attention (e.g. a diabetic who hasn't had insulin); abnormal lab values; risks of infection, safety, or security (for the patient or for others)
_______ is standardized statement about the health of the client for the purpose of providing nursing care?
What is a nursing diagnosis?
jaundice is best assessed in
sclera, nail beds, and mucous membranes
A client who reports nausea is which type of data
subjective data
NMMDS stand for?
What is nursing management minimum data set?
Third-level priority problems (later priorities)
health problems that don't fit into the above categories (e.g. problems with lack of knowledge, activity, rest, family coping)
This element of the nursing process establishes nursing procedures and expectations for outcomes
What is Plan of care?
Usually the first to see unexpected results and any adverse reaction to the patient in the hospital are who
Nurses ?
When a nurse write a diagnosis, they should include
includes the problem and the related contributing conditions.
The nursing process is:
The nursing process is:
Assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating
Critical thinking skills helps the nurse see relationships among the data called
Clustering related cues
what is impetigo?
a highly contagious bacterial infection of the skin.
Specialty nurses who work in critical care areas
Who are Critical Care Nurses
Assessing includes
Gathering data
True or False: The implementation an Evaluation is one of the elements of the nursing process?
What is True?
Developing appropriate nursing interventions for a patient relies on the appropriateness of the
Nursing diagnosis.
Respiratory rate, Oxygen saturation and decreased breath sounds are what type of data
Objective data