Chapter 28 Key Terms
- Analysis
- critical examination of the meaning of identified cues
- Assessment
- collection of available data to inform care planning
- Clinical judgment
- decision-making from use of critical thinking in the nursing process
- Critical thinking
- metacognitive process that is learned academically and experientially on the continuum of nursing education and practice
- Evaluation
- process of reviewing outcomes for effectiveness, as determined by the nurse and the client
- Evidence-based practice (EBP)
- interventions formed by a combination of formal research findings, nursing competency, and the preferences of the client and family
- Implementation
- exam that measures graduate nurses’ understanding of safe practice at the entry level
- National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN)
- exam that measures graduate nurses’ understanding of safe practice at the entry level
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)
- agency that coordinates the regulatory functions of individual state boards of nursing in the United States
- Nursing process
- measurable responses to interventions; results of goal-setting
- Outcomes of care
- measurable responses to interventions; results of goal-setting
- Person-centered care
- client is the focused recipient of nursing care
- Planning
- cognitive process of generating solutions to identified problems, setting goals of treatment, and developing nursing interventions to accomplish these objectives
- Therapeutic alliance
- partnership with the client
- Therapeutic environment
- safe physical location, such as a hospital, clinic, or home, and the supportive conditions within that location
- Unfolding case study
- example of a client care scenario where the situation changes, seeking to replicate a real-life situation and to call upon decision-making skills of the nurse to respond as client needs present or change
critical examination of the meaning of identified cues
collection of available data to inform care planning
decision-making from use of critical thinking in the nursing process
metacognitive process that is learned academically and experientially on the continuum of nursing education and practice
process of reviewing outcomes for effectiveness, as determined by the nurse and the client
interventions formed by a combination of formal research findings, nursing competency, and the preferences of the client and family
exam that measures graduate nurses’ understanding of safe practice at the entry level
exam that measures graduate nurses’ understanding of safe practice at the entry level
agency that coordinates the regulatory functions of individual state boards of nursing in the United States
measurable responses to interventions; results of goal-setting
measurable responses to interventions; results of goal-setting
client is the focused recipient of nursing care
cognitive process of generating solutions to identified problems, setting goals of treatment, and developing nursing interventions to accomplish these objectives
partnership with the client
safe physical location, such as a hospital, clinic, or home, and the supportive conditions within that location
example of a client care scenario where the situation changes, seeking to replicate a real-life situation and to call upon decision-making skills of the nurse to respond as client needs present or change
