VCE 1: Lesson 3: Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice
Reading Assignment in Potter, P., Perry, A., Stockert, P., & Hall, A. (2013).
Fundamentals of nursing (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.
Nursing Assessm
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VCE 1: Lesson 3: Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice
Reading Assignment in Potter, P., Perry, A., Stockert, P., & Hall, A. (2013).
Fundamentals of nursing (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.
Nursing Assessment (Chapter 16)
Nursing Diagnosis (Chapter 17)
Planning for Nursing Care (Chapter 18)
Implementing Nursing Care (Chapter 19)
Evaluation (Chapter 20)
Documentation and Informatics (Chapter 26, pages 357-358)
Patient:
Patricia Newman, Medical-Surgical Floor, Room 406
Objectives:
Assess the health care needs of two patients.
Develop nursing diagnoses from available data.
Identify priorities of nursing care for two patients.
Develop goals and outcome statements.
Discuss factors to consider in choosing nursing interventions.
Exercise 1
Writing
This exercise will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
1. A nurse is preparing to start her shift on a medical-surgical unit. Which of the
following factors concerning the change-of-shift report (hand-off report) will
be most important for the nurse to consider? (Hint: See pages 357-358 in
your textbook.)
a. Next anticipated dressing change
b. Patient's personality
c. Patient's family support
d. Off-going nurse's opinion about the patient's family background
Ans: a
2. Indicate whether the following statement is true or false.
Physiologic diagnoses have a higher priority than psychologic diagnoses.
Ans: t
3. Indicate whether the following statement is true or false.
The Kardex provides a filing system for recording the physician's orders.
Ans: f
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