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| Explain how implementing relates to other phases of the nursing process |
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| Based on 1st 3 phases; nursing activities & client responses examined during evaluating phase; activities individualized based on assessment data |
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| Describe 3 categories of skills used to implement nursing interventions. |
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| Cognitive skills (intellectual:problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, creativity), interpersonal skills (verbal & nonverbal, communication skills, therapeutic comm., showing knowledge, attitude, feeling and interest & appreciation of client's culture) and technical skills (psychomotor skills: physical actions controlled by mind, not reflexive, requires knowledge and manual dexterity) |
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| Discuss the 5 activities of the implementing phase |
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| Reassessing the client, determining nurse's need for assistance, implementing nursing interventions, supervising delegated care, documenting nursing activities |
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| Identify guidelines for implementing nursing interventions |
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| evidence-based practice, understand interventions, adapt to client, safe care, teach support & comfort, be holistic, respect dignity & enhance self esteem, encourage active client participation |
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| Explain how evaluating relates to other phases of the nursing process |
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| depends on effectiveness of phases before, assessing & ND must be accurate, goals/desired outcome must be stated behaviorally to be useful, w/o implementing there'd be no evaluating, evaluating and assessing overlap |
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| Describe 5 components of the evaluation process |
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| 1)Collecting datât related to the desired outcomes (NOC) 2)Comparing data with outcomes 3)Relating nursing activities to outcomes 4)Drawing conclusions about problem status 5)Continuing, modifying, or terminating nursing care plan |
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| Describe the steps involved in reviewing and modifying the client's care plan |
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| 1) Critique each phase of nursing process 2) Check whether interventions were: carried out & were unclear or unreasonable. 3) Make necessary modifications 4) Implement modified plan 5) begin nursing process again |
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| Differentiate quality improvement from quality assurance |
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| Assurance: ongoing, systematic process; eval.& promote excellence provision of health care; evaluate level of care provided; eval. of performance nurse, agency, or country; Improvement: focus on process, systematic approach to improve, focus on id-ing & correcting a system's problems |
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| Name the 2 components of an evaluation statement. |
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| Conclusion and supporting data |
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| Describe 3 components of quality evaluation: structure, process & outcomes. |
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| Structure:focuses on setting, effect setting has on care, describe desirable environmental & organizational characteristics; Process: focuses on how the care was given, relevance of care to client needs how nurse uses the nursing process; Outcome: focuses on demonstrable client health changes resulting from nursing care; outcome criteria written in terms of client responses or health status |
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