Basic Nursing 36

Implementing Nursing Care phrases.

"Do it," "share it," and "write it down" are the action phrases of implementation.

Key Concept Nursing evaluation is the measurement of the effectiveness of assessing, diagnosing, planning, and implementing. Evaluation includes the following steps:

* Analyzing the client's responses * Identifying factors that contributed to the success or failure of the care plan * Planning for future nursing care

Key Concept: Nursing Implementation Means the Carrying out of the Nursing Care Plan (steps )

* Continuing the collection of data * Communicating care with the healthcare team * Documenting care

Key Concept Discharge teaching begins on admission and continues throughout the client's care.

The client and family cannot be expected to remember a large amount of teaching at one time, especially just as the client is leaving the facility.

Technical skills

such as changing an sterile dressing or administering and injection.

During evaluation, the last step of the nursing process,

the nurse and client jointly measure how well the client has achieved the goals that were specified in the plan of care. Any factors that contributed to the client's success or failure are identified, and the plan of care is revised as necessary. The client's responses to the plan of care determine whether the plan continues as is, is modified, or is ended.

The Fourth step of the Nursing Process; Implementation

you put the client's plan of care into action.

Which of the following is a dependent nursing action?

Administering a routine medication

Accountability

An important aspect of the Legal requirements of nursing practice

Analyzing the Client's Response; that previously established goals and objectives of the nursing care plan

Evaluation of care is based on these criteria.

Which of the following is a priority nursing intervention?

Assisting the client to a full-Fowler's position because the client is having difficulty breathing in a supine position.

Discharge planning is the process by which the client is prepared for continued care outside the healthcare facility or for independent living at home.

Clients, family, or other healthcare workers may provide continuing care.

Choose all of the following statements that are correct regarding discharge planning.

Discharge planning should begin during the initial nursing interview and assessment.Discharge planning needs to be documented in the client's record.

Interventions

Implementation of a nursing care plan

Implementations

May be called nursing interventions

Evaluation

Measures how well the Medical treatment worked

Independent actions

Nursing actions that do not require doctors orders

Which type of skill is the nurse using when inserting a nasogastric tube?

Technical

Which of the following best describes the use of evaluation in the nursing process?

The nurse rewrites the nursing care plan because the client is unable to meet the goal of walking in the hallway for 50 feet twice a day.

Skills Used in Implementing Nursing Care

These skills include your ability to perform intellectual, interpersonal, and technical skills.

Dependent Actions

You must follow phisician orders specifically.

Which of the following is an independent nursing action?

c. Providing a backrub for a client

"Do It" When implementing care, you perform nursing actions that may be

dependent, interdependent, or independent.

Intellectual skills

involved knowing and understanding essential information

interpersonal skills

involves believing, behaving , and relating to others

Discharge Planning

its the process of which the client is prepared for continuous care outside the hospital