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Health Assessment
Question | Answer |
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Define Assessment | the process of collecting, validating, and clustering data. |
what is the first and most imortant step in the nursing process? | Assessment |
What are the 5 steps of the nursing process (in order starting with 1)? | Assessment, Nursing Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation |
What is the purpose of the nursing process? | The nursing process is used to identify, prevent, and treat actual or potential health problems ad promote wellness |
Define health: | A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Relative state in which person is able to live to his or her potential icludes the 6 facets is not solely the absence of disease |
Name the 6 facets of health: | physical, mental, social, cultural, developmental, spiritual |
Define nursing diagnosis: | analyzing the collected data to identify actual health problems or responses to life processes and state them as nursing diagnoses. |
what is the difference between an actual nursing diagnosis and a potential nursing diagnosis? | and actual nursing diagnosis identifies an occuring health problem for your patient and a potential nursing diagnosis identifies a high-risk health problem that will most likely occur unless preventative measures are taken. |