NSG 2317 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biomedical Model, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Shortness Of Breath
15 Dec 2016
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Assessment: point of entry in an ongoing process. Assessment collection of data about individual"s health state. Make clinical diagnosis about individual"s health state or response to actual. Database = subjective and objective combined data risk factors and life processes and diagnosis of overall levels of wellness. Diagnostic reasoning: process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses (based on scientific method, 4 major components: Attending to initially available cues [piece of info, sign or symptom, laboratory data] Gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses. Evaluating each hypothesis with new data collected final diagnosis. Hypothesis tentative explanation for a cue or set of cues used as basis for further investigation: organize data into meaningful clusters, validate data to ensure accuracy; identifying missing info = essential critical thinking skill, eliminate extraneous variables. Critical thinking and the diagnostic process: nursing process has 6 phases.
