Nu 325 exam 1 ch 12348 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Assessment - collection of data about individual's health state elements of a database - -subjective data -objective data -patient's records -laboratory studies Subjective data - what a patient says about him/her-self. objective data - what you, as the health professional, observe by inspecting, percussing, palpating, & auscultating during the physical examination. 6 steps of nursing process - -assessment -diagnosis -outcome identification -planning -implementation -evaluat...