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Essentials of Nursing Care: Health Safety
Week #1 Terminology
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Nursing
Undergraduate 2
08/03/2011

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Critical Thinking
Definition
cognitive process that includes creativity, problem solving and decision-making
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Critical Analysis
Definition
set of questions one can apply to a particular situation or idea to determine essential information and ideas and discard superfluous information and ideas
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Inductive reasoning
Definition
making generalizations from specific data
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Deductive reasoning
Definition
making specific observations from a generalization
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Problem solving
Definition
obtaining information that clarifies the nature of a problem and suggests possible solutions
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Decision making
Definition
the process of establishing criteria by which alternative courses of action are developed and selected
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Nursing process
Definition
a systematic rational method of planning and providing nursing care
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Assessing
Definition
process of collecting, organizing, validating, and recording data about a client's health status
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Planning
Definition
ongoing process that involves assessing, establishing goals, developing a plan of action, determines deadlines, describes how outcomes are to be achieved and evaluated
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Implementing
Definition
phase of the nursing process in which the nursing care plan is put into action
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Evaluating
Definition
planned, ongoing, purposeful activity in which clients and health care professionals compare expected outcomes to actual outcomes
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Directive interview
Definition
highly stuctured interview that uses closed questions to elicit specific information
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Nondirective interview
Definition
interview using open-ended questions and empathetic responses to build rapport and learn client concerns
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Open-ended questions
Definition
questions that specify only a broad topic and invite clients to explore thoughts and feelings about the topic
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Nursing diagnosis
Definition
the nurse's clinical judgment about responses to actual and potential health problems to provide the basis for selecting nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable
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Risk diagnosis
Definition
clinical judgment that a problem does not exist, but the presence of risk factors indicates a problem is likely to develop unless nurse intervenes
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Wellness diagnosis
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describes human responses to levels of wellness that have a readiness for enhancement
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Possible diagnosis
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one in which evidence about a health problem is incomplete or unclear
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Syndrome diagnosis
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a diagnosis that is associated with a cluster of other diagnoses
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Diagnostic label
Definition
title used in writing a nursing diagnosis taken from the NANDA standardized taxonomy of terms
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Defining characteristics
Definition
client sign and symptoms that must be present to validate a nursing diagnosis
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Etiology
Definition
the causal relationship between a problem and its related factors
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NANDA
Definition
North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
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