Clinical decision making Problem-solving approach that nurses use to define patient problems and select appropriate treatment. -What separates professional nurses from assistive personnel (AP), the nurse will observe, collect data and make a plan for the best course of action.
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Clinical decision making ✅Problem-solving approach that nurses use to define patient
problems and select appropriate treatment.
-What separates professional nurses from assistive personnel (AP), the nurse will
observe, collect data and make a plan for the best course of action.
Clinical judgment ✅A conclusion about a patients needs or health problems and/or the
decisions to take or avoid action, use or modify standard approaches or creates new
approaches based on the patients response.
Deductive reasoning ✅the process of applying a general statement to specific facts or
situations
Evidence-based knowledge ✅Knowledge based on research or clinical expertise,
makes nurses better informed critical thinkers.
Knowing the patient ✅An in-depth knowledge of a patient's patterns of responses
within a clinical situation and knowing the patient as a person.
Reflection ✅Purposely reviewing a situation to discover its purpose or meaning
Inference ✅Forming a conclusion about the related pieces of evidence. Previous
experience with the evidence is also considered.
Review of systems (ROS) ✅A systematic approach for collecting subjective
information from patients about the presence or absence of health-related issues in
each body system.
Collaborative problem ✅A problem that requires both medicine and nursing
interventions to treat.
Data cluster ✅Your review an analysis of assessment data involve critically organizing
all data elements about a patient into meaningful patterns. Sets of assessment
findings/defining characteristics
Medical diagnosis ✅The identification of a disease condition based on a specific
evaluation of physical signs and symptoms, a patient's medical history, and the results
of diagnostic tests and procedures
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