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Foundations of Nsg1

Nursing Process, Ch. 7 - Alison Miles

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Medical Diagnosis identification of disease based on specific evaluation of physical signs & simptoms; client's med history and results of diagnostic tests & procedures
Nursing diagnoses clinical judgement about individual, family or community responses to actual or potential health problems or life processes
Collaborative problem actual or potential physiological complication nurses monitor to detect onset of changes in statue (ex: hemorrhage, infection & cardiac arrhythmia)
Client-centered problems Early theorists defined nursing intervention in terms of "client-centered problems"
Defining characteristics clinical criteria or assessment findings that support actual nursing diagnosis
Clinical Criteria objective or subjective signs & symptoms, clusters of signs and symptoms or risk factors that lead to diagnostic conclusion
Actual nursing niagnosis human responses to health conditions/life processes that exist in individual, family or community (ex: acute pain)
Risk nursing diagnosis human responses to health conditions/life processes that will possibly develop in vulnerable individual, family or community (ex: risk of infection)
Health promotion nursing diagnosis clinical judgement of person's, family's, or community's health motivation and desire to increase well-being and actual human health
Wellness nursing diagnosis human responses to levels of wellness in individual, family or community (ex: readiness for enhanced coping related to successful cancer treatment)
Diagnostic label name of nursing diagnosis as approved by NANDA
Related factors condition or etiology identified from client's assessment data; associated w/client's actual or potential and can change problem w/nursing interventions
Etiology part of nursing diagnosis always with in the domain of nursing practice and a condition that responds to nursing interventions
Risk factors environment, physiological, physchological, genetic, or chemical elements that increase the vulnerability of an individual, family or community to an unhealthful event
support of diagnostic statement nursing assessment data needs to support diagnostic label and related factors need to support the etiology
culture and nursing diagnosis cultural differences, impaired communication, client value system all could impact diagnostic conclusions
Practice tips to avoid data collection errors knowledgeable and experienced in assessment techniques; approach in steps; review clinical assessments; determine veracity of data by having co-worker validate findings
Error in data clustering don't make nursing diagnosis fit signs and symptoms obtained
Cue information you obtain from use of your senses
Inference ability to come to a logical conclusion or judgement based on available data
Assessment deliberate and systematic collection of data to determine patient's current and past health status, functional status, and coping patterns
Subjective Data patient's perception about health problems; only provided by the patient (ex: fear, hunger, pain, anxiety)
Objective Data observations or measurements you make during assessments (ex: temp, BP, lab data, description of wound or rash)
Validation comparing data with another source
Data Clustering set of meaningful signs and symptoms that are grouped together in a logical order
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