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| Four broad goals within nursing |
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1. To promote health
2. prevent illness
3. to treat human responses to health or illness
4. to advocate for individuals, and families, communities and populations |
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| Providers of direct and indirect care |
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work in hospice, rehab centers, and homes
-to help patients and their families cope with disability and death |
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| Roles of designers, coordinators and managers of care |
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-focus on how diseases are affecting activity levels
-focus on how patients cope with their issues |
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| includes a true concern for the welfare of others and is reflected in the desire to understand the patient's perspective and health beliefs |
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| is present when nurses show respect for patients by ensuring privacy and confidentiality |
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| by providing honest info to patients, documenting care accurately and reporting errors |
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| nurses work for by ensuring equal treatment and access to quality health care |
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| gathering information about the health status of the patient analyzing and synthesizing those data, making judgments about nursing interventions based on the findings and evaluating patient care outcomes |
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| includes interviewing to collect the patient's past medical and surgical histories |
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| Comprehensive heath history |
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| includes "heath history" as well as nutrition, development, mental health, social, cultural and spiritual dimensions and safety issues |
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| Wellness check up assessment |
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| focuses on screening for high-risk conditions and teaching and health promotion associated with common issues |
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| strategies aimed at preventing problems. Immunizations, health teaching, safety precautions, and nutrition counseling |
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| includes the early diagonosis of health problems and prompt treatment to prevent complications. vision screening, pap smears, BP screening, hearing testing, scoliosis screening, TB skin testing |
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| focuses on preventing complications of an existing disease and promoting health to the highest level. Diet teaching for patients with diabetes, inhaler teaching for patients with lung disease and exercise programs for those who have had myocardial infarction |
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| is a systematic problem-solving approach to identifying and treating human responses to actual or potential health problems |
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| Parts of the nursing process |
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assessing
diagnoses
planning
intervening
evaluating |
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