NUR 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Process, Medical Diagnosis
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Assessment: looking at patient, trying to find out what is going on, doing admission history, gathering data, physical assessment. The nursing process phases overlap and are interrelated. Guide for thinking at the point of care everyday. Autonomy: people have the right to make own decisions based on values and beliefs, being informed, sounds reasoning. Fidelity: keep promises and do not make promises you cannot keep. Beneficence: aim to do good and avoid harm. The nursing process and its relation to iruepic clinical reasoning model. Utilization of scientific facts, principles, laws, and phenomenological and experiential information to identify, relate, understand, explain, predict, influence and control actual, potential and perceived nursing phenomena. Step 1: identify variables observed in a phenomenon. Nursing process assessment data clustering. Step 6: influencing one or more variables in order to bring about a desirable outcome. The majority of nursing action are directed towards influencing patients and others.
