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| scientific method | Collection of data through observation, experimentation, and the formulation and testing of a hypothesis |
| Hypothesis | Scientific guess |
| Nursing Process | Includes, assessment, planning, diagnosis, implementation, and evaluation |
| Assessment | Answers the question what is happening? |
| Planning | What are you going to do about the problem? |
| Implementation | What you actually do with the patient to address the problem |
| Evaluation | Data analysis of plan and implementation, and patient outcomes |
| Nursing Diagnosis | clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual, or potential health problems/life processes that requires nursing intervention |
| Actual Diagnosis | Statement about a health problem the client has, and the benefit from nursing care |
| Risk Diagnosis | Statement about health problems that a patient does not have yet, but is at high risk to develop in the near future |
| Possible Diagnosis | Statement about a health problem the patient might have currently, but there is insufficient information currently to make an actual diagnosis |
| Syndrome Diagnosis | Used when a cluster of nursing diagnosis are seen together |
| Wellness Diagnosis | Describes an aspect of the client that is at a low level of wellness |
| Problem | Statement of the patient’s risk for or actual health condition that the nurse is licensed and accountable to treat |
| Etiology | Statement of the patient’s risk for or actual health condition that the nurse is licensed and accountable to treat |
| Medical Diagnosis | Must be determined by physician, prior to being utilized in nursing diagnosis |
| Manifestations | Signs and symptoms of the problem identified |
| Plan | What are you going to do about this patient’s problem? |
| Implementation | Actual hands on with the patient |
| Evaluation | Determine whether or not plan actually maintained or increased patient’s level of wellness |
| Universal Self Care Requisites | basic and common to all humans and are constantly present; these needs must be met to achieve optimal health and well-being. |
| Self-Care Agency | Assets or abilities of an individual to perform self-care |
| Self-Care Deficit | Deficit relationship that exists when the demand for self – care exceeds the person’s ability to perform self – care |
