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The nursing
process functions as a
systematic guide to
client-centered care with
5 sequential steps.
Utilizing the Nursing Process
• Step 1: Data Collection or Assessment
• Step 2: Data Analysis and Organization
• Step 3: Formulating Your Nursing Diagnoses
• Step 4: Setting Priorities
• Step 5: Establishing Client Goals and Desired Outcomes
• Step 6: Selecting Nursing Interventions
• Step 7: Providing Rationale
• Step 8: Evaluation
HEALTH ASSESSMENTIN NURSING
HEALTH ASSESSMENT
2. Diagnoses b. Clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health problems and life processes.
5. Evaluation e. Assessing whether outcome criteria have been met and revising the plan of care if necessary.
6. Nursing Diagnosis f. Analysis of subjective and objective data to make a professional nursing judgment.
7. Subjective Data g. Sensations or symptoms that can be verified only by the client (i.e. pain)
8. Objective Data h. Findings that directly observed or indirectly observed through measurements.
9. Collaborative Problem i. Problems that require assistance of other health care professionals.
10. Referral Problem j. Physiologic complications that nurses monitor to detect their onset or changes in status.
COLLECTING SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE DATA
2. During an interview with an adult client, the nurse can keep the interview from going off course by: 7. During a client interview, the nurse uses non-verbal expressions appropriately when the
a. Using open-ended questions. nurse
b. Rephrasing the client’s statements. a. Avoids excessive eye contact with the client.
c. Inferring information. b. Remains expressionless throughout the interview.
d. Using close-ended questions. c. Uses touch in a friendly manner to establish rapport.
d. Displays mental distancing during the interview.
3. The nurse has interviewed a Hispanic client with limited English skills for the first time. The nurse 8. During an interview of an adult client, the nurse should
observes that the client is reluctant to reveal personal information and believes in a hot and cold a. Use leading questions for valid responses
syndrome of disease causation. The nurse should b. Provide client with information as question arise.
a. Indicate acceptance of the client’s cultural differences. c. Read each question carefully from the history form.
b. Request a family member to interpret for the client. d. Complete the interview as quickly as possible.
c. Use slang terms to identify for certain body parts.
d. Remain in a standing position during the interview.
4. For a nurse to be therapeutic with clients when dealing with sensitive issues such as terminal illness 9. While interviewing a client for the first time, the nurse is using a standardized nursing
or sexuality, the nurse should have history form. The nurse should
a. Advance preparation in this area. a. Maintain eye contact while asking the questions from the form.
b. Experience in dealing with these type of clients. b. Read the questions verbatim from the form.
c. Knowledge of his or her own thoughts and feelings about these issues. c. Ask the client to complete the form.
d. Personal experience with death, dying and sexuality. d. Ask leading questions throughout the interview.
5. The nurse is interviewing a client in the clinic for the first time. The client appears to have a very 10. The nurse is interviewing a 78-year -old client for the first time. The nurse should first
limited vocabulary. The nurse should plan to a. Assess the client’s hearing acuity.
a. Use very basic lay terminology. b. Establish rapport with the client.
b. Have a family member present during an interview. c. Obtain biographic data.
c. Use standard medical terminology. d. Use medical terminology appropriately.
d. Show the client pictures of different symptoms, such as faces pain chart.
DATA SOURCES
• A. PRIMARY
A. Subjective
• Patient’s or clients verbal description of their health status or
problems
• ONLY client can provide subjective data
• Subjective data is the MAJOR essential in health history
B. Objective
• Observation or measurements of client’s health status
• Ex: inspection of surgical wound, description of an observed
behavior, measurement of BP
• B. SECONDARY