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| Four Goals of the American Nurses Association (ANA) |
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Promote health
Prevent Illness
Treat human response to health or illness
Advocate for individuals, families, communities, and/or populations |
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-Responsible for protecting the legal and ethical rights of patients
-Provide safe/Humanistic care |
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Altruism
Autonomy
Human Dignity
Integrity
Social Justice |
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| Purpose of Health Assessment |
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-gathering of data about the health status of patient
-Analyzing and synthesizing the data
-Making judgements pertaining to interventions
-Evaluating patient care outcomes |
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| Components of Health Assessment |
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| Heath History, Review of Systems, Physical Assessment |
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Assess
Diagnose
Plan care
Intervene
Evaluate
REASSESS |
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| Purposeful, creative, outcome directed thinking based on the nursing process |
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| gathering data to conclude diagnoses, abnormal findings/normal findings, subjective and objective data, collaborative appraoch |
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| Interventions to Promote Healthy Change |
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Primary Prevention
Secondary Prevention
Tertiary Prevention |
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| Types of Physical Assessment |
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Emergency (life threatening problem)
Focused (on area of concern)
Comprehensive (head--> toe) |
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| Patterns all humans share |
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| most organized, most info |
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| logical tool in organizing data when documenting and communicating findings |
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| Being concerned about the welfare of people |
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| ability for people to make decisions about their own care |
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| equal justice to all-> everyone has an equal right to healthcare |
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