Nursing and the Nursing Process

These flashcards cover the key concepts related to nursing, nursing roles, the nursing process, health definitions, prevention levels, and important initiatives.

What is Nursing?

Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

Nursing Roles: Advocate

Helping individuals attain what they are entitled to receive through the health care system.

Nursing Roles: Care Manager

Prevents duplication of services, maintains quality and safety, and reduces costs.

Nursing Roles: Consultant

Nurse specialists who provide guidance and support within various settings.

Nursing Roles: Educator

Essential for primary prevention and involves understanding both knowledge and application in the teaching-learning process.

Nursing Roles: Healer

Identifying individual needs through a holistic approach to care.

Nursing Roles: Researcher

Integrates clinical experience with available external clinical evidence through systematic research.

What is health?

Health is viewed on a wellness-illness continuum and involves social determinants and ecological models emphasizing quality of life.

Healthy People Initiative

A program initiated in 2000 focusing on illness prevention, lifespan increase, and health promotion.

Levels of Prevention

Includes primary (health protection and promotion), secondary (screenings and treating disease), and tertiary (minimizing effects and rehabilitation).

Nursing Process-ADPIE

Assessment, Nursing Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation. It's a framework guiding professional nursing practice.

Nursing Diagnosis

Clinical judgment about an individual, family, or community response to actual or potential health problems.

SMART Goals

Goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely.

Nursing Process- Implementation

The step where actual care is delivered and nursing interventions are carried out.

Nursing Process- Evaluation

Determines the effectiveness of nursing interventions and guides modifications to the care plan.