Nursing Process Flash Cards

First step of the nursing process; activities required in the first step are data collection, data validation, data sorting, and data documentation. The purpose is to gather information for health problem identification.

Active listening technique that prompts a respondent to continue telling a story or describing a situation. Involves use of phrases such as “Go on,” “Uh huh,” and “Tell me more."

A form of question that limits a respondent's answer to one or two words.

Therapies that require the knowledge, skill, and expertise of multiple health care professionals.

Physiological complication that require the nurse to use nursing-prescribed and physician-prescribed interventions to maximize patient outcomes.

A care-planning tool that assists in critical thinking and forming associations between a patient's nursing diagnoses and interventions.

A problem-solving method used to help patients recognize and manage stress and to enhance interpersonal relationships; it helps patients examine alternatives and decide which choices are most helpful and appropriate.

Tools used in managed care that incorporate the treatment interventions of caregivers from all disciplines who normally care for a patient. Designed for a specific care type, a pathway is used to manage the care of a patient throughout a projected length of stay.

The active, purposeful, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine one's thinking and the thinking of other individuals.

Information that a nurse acquires through hearing, visual observations, touch, and smell.

Logical examination of and professional judgment about patient assessment data; used in the diagnostic process to derive a nursing diagnosis.

A set of signs or symptoms that are grouped together in logical order.

Treatments performed through interaction with the patient. For example, a patient may require medication administration, insertion of an intravenous infusion, or counseling during a time of grief.

Study of all factors that may be involved in the development of a disease.

Determination of the extent to which established patient goals have been achieved.