NSE 13A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patient Safety, Hypertension, Health Promotion
12 Sep 2016
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Objective data: what you observe by inspecting, percussion, palpating, and auscultation. Compare clinical findings with normal and abnormal variation and developmental events. Interpret data (make hypotheses, test hypotheses, and derive diagnosis) Use ongoing assessment to revise diagnosis, outcome, plan. Repertoire of systematic reviews high level evaluation of intervention effectiveness. More inclusive view of what counts as evidence. The best evidence in combination with the clinician"s experience, patient preferences and values, decisions about care treatment. Describe relational practice and how they relate to health assessment. Focuses on nurses" attention on what is significant to people and how capacities and socio environmental limitations shape their choices. Central skill reflectivity examination of how the nurse views and responds to patients on the basis of the nurse"s own assumptions and experiences. Mental status, untreated medical problems, pain, urinary, lab values, infection, safety. Defines health as a resource for living, meeting personal needs. Social, economic, political conditions that shape the health of people.
