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| How should nurses experience dissonance? |
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| They should seek out contradicting views to their own. |
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| How should nurses handle ambiguity? |
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| They need to be comfortable with not knowing the answers all the time. |
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| What is self-assessment mean for a nurse? |
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| Being honest with themselves about what critical thinking attitudes they have and which they need to work on. |
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| Assessment is the systematic and continuous collection, organization, validation and documentation of data. |
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| What does SOAPIE stand for? |
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| Subjective information, Objective information, Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. |
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| What is an initial assessment for? |
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Definition
| To establish a complete database for problem identification, reference, and future comparison. |
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| What is a problem focused assessment? |
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| To determine the status of a specific problem identified in an earlier assessment. |
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| What is an emergency assessment for? |
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Definition
| To identify life threatening or new problems. |
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| What is a time lapsed assessment? |
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| To compare the clients current status to a baseline statues obtained previously. |
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