Chapter 13 – Thoughtful Person-Centered Practice

Vocabulary flashcards that cover key terms and concepts from Chapter 13: Thoughtful Person-Centered Practice, including professional attributes, blended competencies, critical thinking, and the nursing process.

Person-Centered Practice

A care approach that prioritizes the unique needs, values, and preferences of each individual patient.

Professional Nurse

A registered nurse who integrates personal attributes, nursing knowledge, and blended competencies to provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.

Personal Attributes (of the Professional Nurse)

Qualities such as open-mindedness, valuing each person, self-awareness, personal responsibility, motivation for excellence, leadership, and courage to question the system.

Knowledge Base

The body of scientific nursing knowledge and evidence that guides clinical reasoning and decision making.

Blended Competencies

The combined cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and ethical/legal skills required for holistic nursing practice.

Cognitive Competencies

Mental skills that enable critical thinking, clinical reasoning, judgment, and evidence-based decision making.

Critical Thinking

Purposeful, self-regulatory judgment that involves analyzing information, recognizing potential problems, and using resources to reach sound conclusions.

Technical Competencies

Hands-on skills and psychomotor abilities required to safely perform nursing procedures and use equipment.

Interpersonal Competencies

Abilities that promote human dignity and foster caring, therapeutic relationships with patients and colleagues.

Ethical/Legal Competencies

Skills for practicing within legal boundaries, understanding scope of practice, and upholding professional and personal ethics.

Reflective Practice

Continuous self-assessment that turns experiences into learning to improve future patient care.

Clinical Reasoning

The thought process used by nurses to assess data, identify problems, and choose evidence-based interventions.

Clinical Judgment

The nurse’s conclusion about a patient’s needs and the resulting actions based on clinical reasoning.

Clinical Judgment Model

A framework that links patient assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation in a logical sequence.

Nursing Process

A systematic, five-step methodology for delivering patient care: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Assessment (Data Collection)

The first nursing-process step involving systematic gathering of patient data to identify needs.

Nursing Diagnosis

The analysis of assessment data to identify patient strengths and actual or potential health problems.

Planning (Individualized Care Plan)

Setting specific, measurable goals and selecting interventions tailored to the patient’s needs.

Implementation

Carrying out the planned nursing interventions to achieve stated goals.

Evaluation

Determining whether nursing interventions have successfully met the patient’s goals and outcomes.