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Exam 1 - AMSN 7016C | 250 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Updated & Verified | 38 Pages

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What is the nursing process? - >>>>1. assessment 2. diagnosis 3. planning 4. implementation 5. evaluation Assessment - >>>>this is the data-gathering stage, where you obtain information from many... sources. purpose is to gather data which is used to draw conclusions about the patient's health status Diagnosis - >>>>- after analyzing the assessment data, synthesizing and clustering information, and hypothesizing about the patient's health status, you identify the patient's health needs and state this in the form of a problem - nursing diagnosis's reflect the patient's response to actual or potential health problems and are different from medical diagnoses Planning (outcomes and interventions) - >>>>this step can be divided into 2 phases - working with the patient to decide upon goals for your care. these are the patient outcomes you want to achieve through your nursing activities. - you develop a list of individualized interventions that will assist the patient in meeting the stated goals. the best interventions are evidenced-based (supported by research) Implementation - >>>>action phase - you implement or delegate the interventions that you planned in step 3. in this phase, you msust document your actions and the patients response to them Evaluation - >>>>determine whether the desired outcomes have been achieved and also whether your outcomes have successfully treated or prevented the patients health problems. if the outcome was not achieved, you need to determined "why" and modify the plan of care (for example - add a new intervention) [Show More]

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