What are: the patient; the patient's support people; the patient record?
100
When evaluating a patient's urinalysis, these are the values to which the patient data is compared
What are standards or norms?
100
This is the written guide that directs the efforts of the nursing team, as nurses work with the patient
What is the plan of nursing care?
100
These are written plans that detail nursing activities to be executed in specific situations, as in the emergency department
What are protocols?
100
These are the measurable patient qualities, skills, and knowledge that nurses use to evaluate a patient's outcome
What are criteria?
200
A planned communication to obtain patient data
What is an interview?
200
Nursing diagnoses should be derived from this
What is a cluster of significant data?
200
These are the 3 basic stages of planning nursing care in the acute care setting
What are initial, ongoing, and discharge planning?
200
This is the professional who plays the role of coordinator within the health care team.
What is the nurse?
200
These are specially designed programs to promote excellence in nursing care
What are quality assurance programs?
300
When a nurse confirms or verifies the data collected upon assessment to keep it free of error, bias, or misinterpretation
What is validation?
300
This type of nursing diagnosis is written when there is a suspected health problem, but more information is needed
What is a possible nursing diagnosis?
300
This type of plan is developed by the nurse who performs the admission assessment
What is initial care plan?
300
It is important to do this when a patient fails to follow the plan of care, despite the nurse's best efforts
What is: reassess the strategy
300
These are 3 essential components of quality care
What are structure, process, and outcome?
400
The conscious and deliberate use of the five physical senses to gather information
What is observation?
400
Patient complaints of chills or nausea are considered "significant data" or this word
What are cues?
400
Examples of these are: "In 5 days, the patient will ambulate the length of the hallway without assistance" AND "Tomorrow, the patient will bathe the infant on her own"
What are psychomotor goals?
400
These are interventions that performed jointly by nurses and other members of the health care team
What are collaborative interventions?
400
These are the levels of performance accepted and expected of the nursing staff, established by authority, custom, or consent
What are standards?
500
This includes all the pertinent patient information collected by the nurse and other health professionals, enabling a comprehensive plan of patient care to be created
What is the database?
500
This is what the nurse does with patient data during the diagnosis step of the nursing process
What is analyze?
500
These are prepared plans of care for specific nursing diagnoses
What are standardized care plans?
500
An example of this type of intervention is when a nurse teaches a patient's family member how to change the patient's dressing
What is nurse-initiated independent intervention?
500
This is an evaluation that focuses on measurable changes in the health status of the patient