Applying nursing process : the foundation for clinical reasoning / Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre.

Author/creator Alfaro-LeFevre, Rosalinda
Format Book
Edition8th ed.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2014.
Descriptionxxv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Nursing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Nursing Process.

Partial contents 1. Overview of nursing process, clinical reasoning, and nursing practice today : Nursing process: the foundation for clinical reasoning ; Goals of nursing ; Critical thinking versus clinical reasoning ; How the nursing process promotes safe, effective reasoning ; Nursing process phases ; Benefits of using the nursing process ; Nursing process in context of today's clinical setting ; Developing critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills ; Willingness and ability to care -- 2. Assessment : Assessment: the key to safety, accuracy, and efficiency ; Assessments that promote sound clinical reasoning ; Six phases of assessment ; Collecting data ; Data base, focus, and wuick priority assessments ; Standard tools, evidence-based practice, and electronic health records ; Assessing disease and disability management ; Health promotion: screening for risk management and early diagnosis ; Ethical, cultural, and spiritual concerns ; The interview and physical assessment ; Identifying subjective and objective data ; Identifying cues and making inferences ; Validating (verifying) data ; Clustering related data ; Identifying patterns/testing first impressions ; Reporting and recording -- 3. Diagnosis : Diagnosis: identifying actual and potential problems ; Increased responsibilities related to diagnosis ; Shifting to a predictive care model (predict, prevent, manage, promote) ; Nursing versus medical diagnoses ; Using standard terminology ; Becoming a competent diagnostician ; Mapping diagnoses/problems ; Be on your patients' S.I.D.E. ; Identifying potential complications ; Identifying problems requiring multidisciplinary care -- 4. Planning : Clinical reasoning during planning ; Four main purposes of the plan of care ; Standard and electronic plans ; Patient safety, infection prevention, and pain and restraint management ; Attending to urgent priorities ; Clarifying expected outcomes (results) ; Case management ; Deciding which problems must be recorded ; Determining nursing interventions ; Assessment: monitoring health status and responses to care (surveillance) ; Patient education: empowering patients and families ; Counseling and coaching: helping people make informed choices ; Consulting and referring: key to multidisciplinary care ; Individualizing interventions ; Individualizing nursing orders ; Making sure the plan is adequately recorded -- 5. Implementation : Implementation: putting the plan into action ; Giving and taking reports (hand-offs) ; Setting daily priorities ; When and how to delegate ; Coordinating care ; Surveillance: preventing errors and omissions: creating safety nets ; Performing nursing interventions ; Implementation and evidence-based practice ; Standard plans and care variances ; Ethical and legal concerns ; Charting ; Principles of effective charting ; Keeping the plan up-to-date and evaluating your day -- 6. Evaluation : Evaluation: key to excellence in nursing ; Evaluation and the other phases of nursing process ; Evaluating an individual plan of care ; Quality improvement ; Research and evidence-based practice -- Example responses to critical thinking and clinical reasoning exercises -- Appendices : A. Example critical pathway ; B. Building healthy workplaces and safety and learning cultures ; C. Key elements of critical thinking in context of ANA standards and QSEN and IOM competencies ; D. Dead on!!: A critical thinking and clinical reasoning game.
Local noteLaupus WC Contract Cataloging
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012021976
ISBN9781609136970
ISBN1609136977

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