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| Collaborative Intervention |
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| actions the nurse carries out in collaboration with other health team members, such as physical therapists, social workers, dietitians, and physicians |
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| a visual tool in which ideas or data are enclosed in circles or boxes of some shape and relationship between these are indicated by connecting lines or arrows |
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| mutlidisciplinary guidelines for client care based on specific medical diagnoses designed to achieve predetermined outcomes |
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| activities carried out on the orders or supervision of a licensed physician or other health care provider authorized to write orders for nurses |
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| the process of anticipating and planning for client needs after discharge |
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| a written or computerized guide that organizes information about the client's care |
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| a part of a care plan that describes, in terms of observable client responses, what the nurse hopes to achieve by implementing the nursing interventions |
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| Independent Interventions |
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| activities that the nurse is licensed to initiate as a result of the nurse's own knowledge and skills |
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| an observable client state, behavior, or self-reported perception or evaluation; similar to desired outcomes in traditional language |
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| a plan tailored to meet the unique needs of a specific client - needs that are not addressed by the standardized plan |
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| Informal Nursing Care Plan |
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| a strategy for action that exists in the nurse's mind |
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| Multidisciplinary Care Plan |
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| a standardized plan that outlines the care required for clients with common, predictable - usually medical - conditions |
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| any treatment, based on clinical judgement and knowledge, that a nurse performs to enhance patient.client outcomes |
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| Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) |
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| a taxonomy of nursing actions each of which includes a label, a definition, and a list of activities |
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| Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) |
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| a taxonomy for describing client outcomes that respond to nursing interventions |
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| rules developed to govern the handling of frequently occuring situations |
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| the process of establishing a preferential order for nursing strategies |
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| steps used in carrying out policies or activities |
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| a predetermined or preprinted plan specifying the procedure to be followed in a particular situation |
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| the scientific reason for selecting a specific action |
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| formal plan that specifies the nursing care for groups of clients with common needs ( e.g. all clients with myocardial infarction) |
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| an order that may be carried out indefinitely until another order is written to cancel it, or that may be carried out for a specified number of days |
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