NUR 222 Exam #1 Study Guide
2024/2025
name the 5 steps in the nursing process - Answer-assessment
diagnose
planning
implement
evaluation
assessment - Answer-gather info about the patient's condition
diagnose - Answer-identify patient's problems
planning - Answer-set goals of care and desir...
analyze cues - Answer✔✔-organizing and linking the recognized cues from previous
step to client's clinical presentation
prioritize hypotheses - Answer✔✔-evaluating and ranking hypotheses according to
priority (urgency, likelihood, risk, difficulty, time, etc.)
generate solutions - Answer✔✔-identify expected outcomes and using hypotheses to
define a set of interventions for the expected outcome
take actions - Answer✔✔-implementing the solution (s) that addresses the high
priority
important to recognize that sometimes no action is an action itself
evaluate outcomes - Answer✔✔-comparing observed outcomes against expected
outcomes
steps in clinical reasoning - Answer✔✔-exploring
analyzing
prioritizing
explaining
deciding
evaluating
SMART objectives stand for what? - Answer✔✔-specific, measurable, attainable,
reasonable, timely
interventions - Answer✔✔-goes along with implementation step and this is what the
nurse performs to enhance patient outcomes
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