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Nursing Assessment
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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
10/23/2012

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What are the 2 steps for Nursing Assessment?
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1 collection and verification of data from a primary sourse/client and a secondary sources/family or health professional

2 analysis of all data as a basis for developing nursing diagnoses, identifying collaborative problems, and developing a plan of individualized care

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Database
Definition
purpose of assessment is to establish this; about client's perceived needs, health problems, and responses to these problems
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Nursing Process
Definition
professional nurse's approach to identify, diagnose, and treat human responses to health and illness
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Cue
Definition
information that you obtain through use of the senses
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Inference
Definition
judgement or interpretation of those cues
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Functional Health Patterns
Definition
Gordon's 11 patterns from 1994
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Health perception-health management pattern
Definition
describes the client's self-report of health and well-being ; how client manages health
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Nutritional-metabolic pattern
Definition
describes the client's daily/weekly pattern of food and fluid intake
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Elimination Pattern
Definition
describes patterns of excretory function(bowel, bladder)
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Activity-exercise pattern
Definition
describes patterns of exercise, activity, leisure and recreation; ability to perform activities of daily living
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Sleep rest pattern
Definition
describes patterns of sleep, rest, and relaxation
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Cognitive-perceptual pattern
Definition
describes sensory-perceptual patterns; language adequacy, memory, decision making ability
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Self-perception-self-concept pattern
Definition
describes client's self-concept pattern and perceptions of self (body image, self concept/worth, emotional patterns)
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Role-relationship pattern
Definition
describes the client's patterns of role engagements and relationships
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Sexuality-productive Pattern
Definition
describes the client's patterns of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with sexually pattern; client's reproductive patterns; premenopausal and postemenopausal problems
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Coping-stress tolerance pattern
Definition
describes the client's ability to manage stress; sources of support; effectiveness of the patterns in terms of stress tolerance
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Value-belief pattern
Definition
describes patterns of values, beliefs(including spiritual), and goals that guide the client's choices or decisions
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Subjective data
Definition
your client's verbal descriptions of their health problems
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Objective data
Definition
observations or measurements of a client's health status
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Interview
Definition
an organized convo w/ the client
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Nursing Health History
Definition
includes data about the client's current level of wellness, including a review of body systems, family and health history, socioculteral history, spiritual history, and mental & emotional reactions to illness
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Open-eneded questions
Definition
prompts a client to describe a situation in more than 1 or 2 words
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Back channeling
Definition
includes active listening such as "uh-huh" and "go on"
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Review of Systems

(ROS)

Definition
systematic method for collectin data on all body systems; ask client about normal functioning of each body system and any noted changes
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Validation of assessment data
Definition
comparison of data with another source to determine data accuracy
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Data analysis
Definition
involves recognizing patterns or trends in the clustered data comparing them with standards, and then coming to a reasoned conclusion about the client's responses to a health problem
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