NURS 2320U Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mental Status Examination, Human Body Weight, Nursing Process
Document Summary
Assessment is the collection of subjective and objective data about a patient"s health. Subjective data consist of information provided by the affected individual. Objective data include information obtained by the health care provider through physical assessment, the patient"s record, and laboratory studies. The nursing process has six phases: assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Critical thinking is the multidimensional thinking process needed for sound diagnostic reasoning and clinical judgement. Seventeen critical thinking skills have been identified, including setting priorities. Every examiner needs to collect four kinds of databases based on the clinical situation. A complete (or total health) database includes a complete health history and a full physical examination. An episodic (or problem-centred) database is used for a limited or short-term problem. It is smaller in scope and more targeted than the complete database. A follow-up database evaluates the status of any identified problem at regular intervals to follow up on short-term or chronic health problems.
