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| Actions based on clinical judgement and nursing knowledge that nurses perform to achieve client outcomes also known as nursing actions, measures strategies and activities. |
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One performed through interaction with the client.
Include physical care, emotional support, and pt. teaching. |
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Indirect Care
Intervention |
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An activity performed away from the client but on behalf of a client or group of clients.
Includes advocacy, managing the environment, consulting with other members of the health care team and making referrals. |
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One that nurses are licensed to prescribe, perform, or delegate based on their knowledge and skills.
Does not require a physician's order. |
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| Knowing how, when, and why to perform an activity makes the action autonomous (independent). Nurse prescribe and perform independent interventions in response to nursing diagnosis. |
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For your decisions and actions with regard to nursing diagnosis and indepedent interventions. |
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| One that is prescribed by a physician or advanced practice nurse but carried out by the bedside nurse. Usually orders for diagnostic tests, medications, treatments, IV therapy, diet, and activity. |
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Interdepedent (collaborative) Intervention |
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Carried out in collaboration with other health team members. eg Physical therapist, dieticians, and physicians. |
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A set of interrelated concepts (ideas) that describes or explains something. |
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ANA Standards of Nursing Practice state that the register nurse. |
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Utilizes beset available evidence, include research findings, to guide practice decisions.
Actively participates in research activities... which may include: critically analyzing and interpreting research for application to practice. |
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Critical Pathways
(called clinical pathways and collaborative care plans) |
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| Standardized plans of care for frequently occuring conditions (eg total hip replacement) for which similar outcomes and intervention are appro. for all pts with the condition. |
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| A term that has been coined to mean the use of firm data rather than anecdote, tradition, intuition or belief in making decisions about medical and nursing practice. |
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| The goal of evidence - based practice is to identify the most effective and cost - efficient treatments for a particular disease or condition. |
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Clinical Practice
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| Systematically developed Stmts to assist practitioners and pts in making decisions about appro health care for a particular disease or procedure. Usually developed by clinicians, pts, and advocay groups and published by specialty org, univers and govern. agency. |
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| State of the art, systematic reviews on clinical topics for the purpose of providing evidence for guidelines, quality improvement, quality measures and insurance coverage decision.s Developed by scientists rather than clinicians, pts, and advoc. groups. |
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Observation/Assessment Intervention |
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- Actual nursing diagnoses, to detect change in status.
- Potential (risk) nursing diagnosis.
- Collaborative problems.
- Wellness diagnoses.
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Actual nursing diagnoses, to help keep the problem from becoming worse.
- Potential (risk) nursing diagnoses to remove/reduce risk/actors in an effort to keep the problem from developing.
- Collaborative problems, to help prevent development of a complication.
- Wellness diagnoses, to prevent specific diseases.
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Actual nursing diagnoses, to relieve symptoms and treat etologies (contributing factors)
Collaborative problems, to implement nursing medical orders for relieving or eleminating the problem. |
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Health Promotion Interventions
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Used for wellness diagnoses in order to support a client's health promotion efforts and achieve or higher level of wellness. |
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Following Process will help you to select the best interventions |
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- Review the nursing diagnosis.
- Review the desired pt. out comes.
- Identify several interventions/action.
- Choose the best intervention for the pt.
- Individualize stand. intervention to meet the pt's unique needs.
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Suggest nursing strategies that are specific to the individual patient. |
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How does problem status influence nursing intervention? |
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observation/assessment interventions used for:
a. actual nursing diagnosis
b. potential nursing diagnsosi
c. collaborative problesm
d. wellness diagnsoses
* Health promotion interventions used for:
wellness diagnsosis
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How does problem status influence nursing intervention? |
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Prevention interventions used for:
a.actual nursing diagnsosis
b. potential nusing diagnosis
c. colloborative problems
d. wellness diagnoses
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| How does problem status influence nursing intervention? |
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Treatment interventions used for:
a. actual nursing diagnosis
b. colloborative problems
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