Purposes of Nursing Diagnostic Statements:

Provides a precise__________ of a patien'ts problem that gives nurses and other members of the health care team common language

Purposes of Nursing Diagnostic statements:

allows nurses to communicate what they do among themselves, ___________,&____________.

purposes of nursing diagnostic statements:

Distinguishes the nurses role from that of the __________ or other health care providers

Purposes of Nursing Diagnostic Statements:

Helps nurses focus on the _______ of  nursing practice

Purposes of Nursing Diagnostic Statements:

Fosters the __________ of nursing knowlede.

Purposes of Nursing Diagnostic Statements:

Promotes creation of practice guidelines that reflect the ________ of nursing

True or False:

Nursing diagnoses were only developed with the last 10 years

- Pt, family & healthcare resource

- Clarification of inconsistent and unclear information

-Critical thinking guides amd direces line of questioning and examiniation to reveal detailed and relevant data.

True or False

Always validate data.

-Data clustering (classify and organize)

-Look for defining characteristics and related factors

-identify patient needs

-Formualte nursing diagnosis and collaborative problems

-acutal nursing diagnosis

-risk nursing diagnosis

-health promotion nursing diagnosis.

What practices within your cultures are important to you?

Has this affected you and your family?

Collaborative Problem

is an actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a patients status.

-         as hemmorahage, infection, and paralysis using medical, nursing and allied health( ex: physical therapy).

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-         The application of critical thinking ______, and _________ helps you to be thorough, comprehensive and accurate when identifying nursing diagnoses that apply to your patients.

-         involves using the assessment data you gather about a patient to logically explain a clinical judgment  aka a nursing diagnosis.

-         flows from the assessment process and includes decision making steps.

Steps: data clustering, identifying patient health problems, and formulating the diagnosis.

-         patterns of data that contain defining characteristics: the clinical criteria that are observable and verifiable.

-         is an objective or subjective sign, symptom, or risk factor that, when analyzed with other criteria, leads to a diagnostic conclusion.

-         has an identified set of defining characteristics that support identification of a nursing diagnosis.

Step 2 in the diagnostic process:

While analyzing clusters of data, you begin to consider the patients health problems. Your interpretation of the information allows you to select among various diagnoses the ones that apply to your patient.

TRUE OR FALSE: Use defining characterisics to narrow down to your nursing diagnosis

a condition, historical factor, or etiology that gives a context for the defining characterisitcs and shows a type of relationship with the nursing diagnosis.

the nature of the patients health problem.

Placing a diagnosis in the context of the patients situation clarifies  what?

so you appropriately individualize care for your patients

Critical thinking is necessary in identifiying nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems so you can do what.

-         related factor of a nursing diagnosis is always within the domain of nursing practice and a condition that responds to nursing interventions.