Unit 1,2,3

Nursing includes workers licensed and unlicensed to care for the clients. The RN graduate must delegate aspects of care to nursing personnel according to their educational background and experience and is accountable for that delegation. The RN graduate has the knowledge and skills necessary for decision making and collaborating with other members of healthcare

RN graduate is accountable to the public for providing clinically competent care to clients across the life span in a variety of settings including acute and long term care.

A nurse practicing within an ethical-legal framework committed to continued learning, development, and professional growth.

6 components of nursing care. This nursing process is the foundation of clinical decision making and includes everything imporant in providing care to clients

Collecting comprehensive data pertinent to patient's health or situation.

Analyzes assessment data to determine diagnosis or issues

RN identifies expected plan individualized to patient of the situation

RN develops a plan that gives strategies and alternative to get expected outcomes

RN implements the identified plan

RN evaluates progress toward goals

Defines actions, procedures, etc that are permitted by law

Regulate scope of nursing practice and protects public health, safety and wellness. Protection from unsafe nurses. Nursing practice as identified by the ANA is representative of the scope of nursing practice as defined by many states

State of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not just the absence of disease. Each person has his or her own concept of health.

Helps people care for themselves in a healthy way, it is a physical awareness, stress managment, and self-responsibility

Health education programs, immunizations, physical and nutritional fitness activities. It is seen as true prevention and is for people who are physically and mentally healthy

for people with health problems or illnesses and are at risk for getting worse or developing complications. The goal is to diagnose and intervene reducing severity and allowing the client to get back to a normal level of health

when disease or illness is permanent and irreversible. It is aimed to minimize effects of long term disease or disability by preventing complications and deterioration

Any situation, habit, or environmental condition physiological or psychological condition spiritual or other variable that increases vulnerability of an individual or group to an illness or accident

A state in which a person physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental or spiritual functioning is impaired or dimished. It is not the same as disease

sudden onset, very severe, short duration

Persistent, long-lasting, can be serious and life-threatening. From either a pathological process or an injury

Activities that protect clients from potential threats to health, prevention of illness motivate people to avoid health declining or functioning levels declining

• Promote wellness in all clients
• Evaluate human responses to psychological and physiological change in primary adult and geriatic clients
• Analyze common disorders of the human body and its response to deviations from wellness that result in dysfunction
• Plan for and evaluate common threapeutic modalities which promote wllness, especially teaching regarding health promotion

• Basic-comcrete based on rules or priniciples
• Complex-analyzes and examines choices, weigh the benefits and risks, be creative and innovative
• Commitment-make decisions independently and accept accountability

• Assessment
• Diagnosis
• Planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation

Meant to reduce the number of organisms present and also prevent the transfer of organisms

Agent or pathogen, source for growth, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portalof entry to a host, a susceptible host

all body fluid, blood, non-intact skin and mucous membranes. Wear gowns if there is a possibility of getting dirty. Helps prevent the spread of organisms, diseases, and infections

separating and restricing ill or contagious people. Use of barrier precautions including use of gowns, gloves, maskes, eye wear, and other protective devices or clothing

• Honesty, giving clear explanations, maintaining privac, being the patient advocate, keeping family members informed
• Caring is the way people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another.

• Components include emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, physical and developmental.
• The purpose of hte interview is to gather info about the patient, identify patterns of info about a client's health and illness by collecting data about all health dimensions

A set of guiding principles that all members of a profession accept. The ANA established the first code of nursing ethics decades ago. Basic principles remain constant, advocacy, responsibility, accuntability, and confidentiality.

Problem solving, continuous process method utilizing scientific reasoning. Prevent and lessen severity of or recover from illness

Data collection, cluster and validate data

Analyze and interpret data, identify client needs, nursing diagnosis

Prioritize, establish client-centered goals, develop expected oucomes, and plan nursing caare

Action/Doing

Assess client response as compared to expected outcomes

Patient's verbal description of their health problems

Observations or measurments of a client's health status

Objective, can be seen and measured

Assessment data is the comparison of dataa with another source to determine accuracy

a data cluser is a set of signs or symptoms that you group together in a logical way.

a feeling, cannot be measured