NUR 155 Foundations to Nursing EXAM 2 (163 Quest ions and Answers) Already Graded A (New Update) What is the nursing process? Systematic, rational method of planning and proving individualized care. What do you do in the nursing process? 1. Assessing 2. Nursing Diagnosing 3. Planning 4. Implementing 5. Evaluating What is the Decision -Making Process? -Choosing the best actions to meet a desired goal -Make value decisions -Time management decisions -Scheduling decisions -Priority decisions The Nursing Process: Assessing -Collecting, organizing, validating and documenting a patient's health data -collect data -organize data -validate data -Document data The Nursing Process: Diagnosing -Analy ze date -Identify health problems, risks, and strengths -formulate diagnostic statements The Nursing Process: Planning -Prioritize problems/diagnoses -Formulate goals/desired outcomes -Select nursing interventions -Write nursing interventions The Nursing Process: Implementing -Reassess the client -Determine the nurse's need for assistance -Implementing the nursing interventions -Supervise delegated care -Document nursing activités The Nursing Process: Evaluating -Collect data related to out comes -Compare data with outcomes -Relate nursing actions to client goals/outcomes -Draw conclusions about problem status -Continue, modify, or terminate the client's care plan What is subjective? What the patient says Ex: "I have pain, nausea, fear" What is objective? -Measurable Ex: vital signs, labs, drainage, etc. Methods of data collection? -Observing -Interviewing Directive Approach to Interviewing? -Nurse establishes purpose -Nurse controls the interview -Used to gather and give i nformation when time is limited, e.g., in an emergency Nondirective Approach to Interviewing -Rapport -building -Client controls the purpose, subject matter, and pacing -Combination of directive and nondirective approaches usually appropriate duri ng the information -gathering interview Types of questions: Closed If you can answer a question with only a "yes" or "no" response, then you are answering a close -
ended type of question. Examples of close -ended questions are: Are you feeling better today? May I use the bathroom? Is the prime rib a special tonight? Should I date him? Will you please do me a favor? Types of questions: Open Open -ended questions are ones that require more than one word answers. The answers coul d come in the form of a list, a few sentences or something longer such as a speech, paragraph or essay. Here are some examples of open -ended questions: What were the most important wars fought in the history of the United States? What are you planning to buy today at the supermarket? How exactly did the fight between the two of you start? Planning the Interview -Time -Place -Seating -Distance -Language What are the stages of an Interview? 1. The opening 2. The body of the interview 3. The closing What is a physical examination? -Use techniques of inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion
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