Download Nursing Fundamentals: Exam Preparation and Critical Thinking and more Exams Advanced Education in PDF only on Docsity! Nursing 1-Exam 1 Differentiate between the various forms of nursing education for LPN's and RN's - LPN's - practical nurse- a tech school or community college. ADN - 2 yr college-community or private. BSN - college or university 4yr. Name 4 focuses of nursing care - Health promotion, Illness prevention, Health restoration, End-of-life Care. Delineate the forces and trends that are affecting contemporary nursing practice. - Demographic, National Economy, Role of the consumer, Women's healthcare issues, Healthcare marketing, Medically under-served population Discuss skills & attitudes of Critical Thinking - Nurses apply knowledge to provide holistic care, is an applied discipline, uses knowledge from other fields, is fast-paced. Attitudes: Independent thinkers, intellectual curiosity, intellectual humility, empathy, courage & perseverance, fair-mindedness. Discuss the effect that critical thinking has on clinical decision-making. - Objectively gathering info on a problem or issue. Recognizing the need for more info. Evaluating the credibility & usefulness of sources of information. Recognizing gaps in ones own knowledge. Listening carefully:reading thoughtfully. Separating relevant from overactive data and important from unimportant data. List the 6 phases of the nursing process - Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning outcomes, Planning interventions, Implementation, Evaluation. Name the main concepts of the full-spectrum nursing model. - Thinking, doing, caring>Patient situation<Patient outcomes Explain how nursing knowledge, nursing process and critical thinking work together in full spectrum nursing. - Nurses use critical thinking in all steps of the nursing process. They also apply critical thinking to the four kinds of nursing knowledge and when they are doing for the pat. Caring motivates and facilitates the thinking and doing. The goal of all this is to have positive effect on a pt's health outcome. Describe the role of institutions on the development of nursing. - First location of health care delivery, 1- 10th century -deacons and deaconesses, christian hosp-below, great risk to won life Identify concepts of holistic care and its importance in client care. - Physical, emotional, spiritual, social, support each component, holism is relationship based!! you must know your patient to address the multiple facets of their illness. Recognize characteristics of caring. - recognized as being central to nursing, more difficult to portray due to time constraints, universal phenomenon that influences ways in which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another. Explain the normal regulation of blood pressure, pulse, oxygen saturation, respiration and body temp. - BP 1100-119 Systolic and 60-80 diastolic, Pulse 60-100 beats/min, O2 90-100, Resp 12-20 breaths /min Describe factors that cause variations in vital signs. - state of health and function of the body systems Describe how changes in one vital sign influence all the other vital signs. - extreme weather, immersion in cold water Identify normal vital signs in the older adult - older adults average temp range from 95-96.8 F. (35-36 C) Explain changes in the older adult's ability to tolerate vital sign changes. - .. Apply the nursing process to vital signs: Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcomes, Interventions and Evaluation - Assessment (gather data), Interventions (what do I do about it?)....acute care, restorative care, health promotion, and ... Identify the purposes of a health assessment. - to establish baseline data, identify nursing diagnosis, collaborative problem or wellness diagnosis, monitor the status of an idenitifed problem, screen for health problems Describe the anticipated "normal" findings within each system. - look at the appearance and behavior, grooming and hygiene, body type and posture, mental state, speech, VS, height and weight
