NRS 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nursing Process, Abbreviation, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Nursing process: a thought process related to nursing. A way to organize thoughts for the patients care plan. Interventions build on the nursing diagnoses and goals. Criteria based: continuous process, you can move back and forth in the nursing process (linear at first, but then you can go back to previous steps) Best to interview child when standing at the same level (i. e. , kneeling down to talk to the child) Be honest but remember to be confidential. *case study: a patient who just arrived on your unit says, i don"t know why you need to do an assessment i am just here to get my medicines adjusted. Nurses need to know what"s going on because since there is a change in medication, there must be a change in the patient"s condition. Ask patients what"s changed since the last time you"ve been here? .
