NURS 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nursing Care Plan, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Nursing Diagnosis
23 Jan 2019
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5 stages of health promotion: personal practices (e. g. health promotion, healthy public policy (e. g. smoking regulations, reorienting health services (e. g. shifting towards a more primary care approach, supportive environments, strengthening community action. Critical thinking - recognizing that an issue exists, analyzing information, evaluating information and making conclusions (settersten & lauver, 2004) Not all patient problems can be resolved through textbooks. Nurses need to seek knowledge, act quickly and make sound clinical decisions. Attitudes for critical thinking (e. g. being open minded) Assessment: requires knowledge of disease processes, growth and development, normal physiology, psychology, assessment findings, health promotion, assessment and communication skills. Diagnosis: requires standards of practice and i ntellectual standards of measurement (e. g. cna) Planning and implementation: requires qualities such as perseverance, fairness, integrity, confidence and creativity. Evaluation: requires experience with p revious clients, validation of assessment findings, observation and assessment techniques. *nursing diagnoses are only meant to identify what problems are present, not why.
