NUR 2092 Health Assessment Exam 4
- Assessment
Answer The collection of subjective and objective data about a patient's health
- Subjective data
Answer Information provided by the affected individual
- Objective data
Answer Information obtained by the
health care provider through observation and inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination
- Database
Answer Totality of information available
about the patient, including subjective data, objective data, and the patient's medical record and laboratory studies
- Purpose of an assessment
Answer Make a judgement or diagnosis
- Diagnostic reasoning
Answer The process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses 1 / 3
- Cues
Answer Pieces of information, signs, symptoms, or laboratory data
- Hypotheses
Answer Tentative explanations for a cue or a set cues and can serve as a basis for further investigation
- Steps of diagnostic reasoning
- Attending to available cues
Answer
- Formulating hypothesis
- Gathering data
- Evaluating hypothesis
- Steps of nursing process
- Assessment
Answer
- Diagnosis
- Outcome identification
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Novice nurse
Answer Has no experience with specific patient populations and uses rules to guide performance
- Proficient nurse
Answer Understands a patient situation as a whole rather than as a list of tasks, attends to an assessment data pattern, and acts without consciously labeling it 2 / 3
- Expert nurse
Answer Has an intuitive grasp of a clinical situation and zeroes in on the accurate solution
- Critical thinking
Answer The multidimensional thinking process needed for sound diagnostic reasoning and clinical judgment
- First-level priority problems
Answer Emergent, life-threatening,
and immediate, such as establishing an airway or supporting breathing
- Second-level priority problems
Answer next in urgency; require prompt intervention to prevent deterioration, and may include a mental status change or acute pain, or abnormal laboratory values
- Third-level priority problems
Answer Important to the patient's health but can be addressed after more urgent health problems are addressed
- Collaborative problems
Answer Certain physiologic complications in which the ap- proach to treatment involves multiple disciplines.
- Evidence-based practice
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Answer