Qualifiers
Nursing Process
Definitions
S/O
Critical Thinking in the Nursing Process
100

Lesser in size or degree.

What is decreased?

100

Performing planned priority nursing interventions is what part of the nursing process?

What is implementation.

100

Symptoms or issues that a client tells you about-that you can not observe of measure.

What is subjective data.

100

Vital signs are this kind of data.

What is objective?

100

Nurses use a variety of different assessment techniques to gather data, what would be the first/best option to assess and gather data.

What is interviewing the client.

200

Inadequate in amount, quality and degree.

What is deficient?

200

A clinical judgement about individual, family or community responses to the actual and potential health problems or life processes.

What is a nursing diagnosis?
200

The cognitive process used to develop and implement the nursing process.

What is critical thinking.

200

"Tell me how you are feeling or Describe how your wife has been helping you?" These types of questions are.

What are open ended questions.

300

Not producing the desires effect.

What is ineffective?

300

What stage of the nursing process is a nurse using when gathering information.

What is assessment.

300

A process known as a systematic framework used to help nurses think critically about solving client problems.

What is the nursing process.

300

Curious, insightful, systematic, analytical, truth-seeking, open-minded, confident and creative are all characteristics of what kind of thinker.

What are characteristics of critical thinkers.

400

To make vulnerable to threat.

What is compromised.

400

Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementing and Evaluation-can all be summed up as what accroynm for the nursing process?

What is ADPIE.

400

Specific, Measurable,Achievable,Realistic and Time Frame- make up what accroynm.

What is S.M.A.R.T.

400

The acronym ADPIE in the nursing process stands for what.

What is Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.

500

Made worse, weakened, damaged.

What is impaired.

500

After assessing the patient and finding out that they have a weakened range of motion and fatigue easily, it would be safe to say that this nurse is in what stage of the nursing process.

What is diagnosis stage.

500

Signs and symptoms in a patient that can be seen, felt, heard and or smelled.

What is objective data.

500

After teaching a young boy how to administer insulin on his own, you have a seat in the nursing station and discuss what happened and how you felt over all- this is known as what stage in the nursing process.

What is evaluation.