NRS 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Critical Thinking, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Identified Patient
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The acute experience for the adult and child. Topic 1: define, describe and review the following terms, collaborative problems: actual or potential physiological complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a client"s status. When collaborative problems develop, nurses intervene in collaboration with personnel from other health care disciplines. Nurses manage collaborative problems such as hemorrhage, infection and cardiac arrhythmia by using both physician-prescribed and nursing-prescribed interventions to minimize complications. For example, a client who has a surgical wound is at risk for developing an infection, and so a physician prescribes antibiotics. Client centred care involves advocacy, empowerment, and respecting the client"s autonomy, voice, self-determination, and participation in decision-making (rnao, 2006). Interprofessional client-centred care requires collaboration among clients, nurses and other health professionals who work together at the individual, organizational and health-care system levels. Health professionals work together to optimize the health and wellness of clients and involve the client in decision-making.
