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11 Cards in this Set
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Actual Nursing Diagnosis |
identify the existing problems or concerns of a patient, describe the response of a patient to a current need, problem, or life process |
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Clustering |
involves organizing patient assessment data into groups with similar underlying causes |
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Defining Characteristics |
cues or clusters of related assessment data that are signs, symptoms, or indications of an actual or health-promotion nursing diagnosis |
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Nursing diagnosis methodology |
The second step of the nursing process. When deciding on an accurate nursing diagnosis for a patient, the nurse makes clinical judgments about a patient's experiences and responses to identified problems or life events expressed during the data collection process |
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parts of the Actual Nursing Diagnosis |
1. diagnosis label 2. related factors 3. defining characteristics |
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parts of the Risk Nursing Diagnosis |
1. Diagnosis label 2. Risk Factors |
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Health - Promotion Diagnosis parts |
1. Diagnosis label 2. Defining characteristics |
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Risk Nursing diagnosis |
Identify specific potential problems in individuals vulnerable to developing complications due to their current disease state or life experience |
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Health promotion nursing diagnosis |
clinical judgments based on the expressed desire of patients, family members, or groups for change |
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Steps for identifying Nursing Diagnosis |
1. Careful analysis and clustering of patient data 2. verification of the specific nursing diagnosis for use with each individual patient |
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Accurate Nursing Diagnosis |
Provides a framework on which nurses provide care to patients in an organized and effective manner. Accurate nursing diagnoses promotes positive patient outcomes, quality patient care, and patient satisfaction |