NCM 103 HA

• The nurse's role in health assessment includes collecting and analyzing data.
• There are four basic types of assessment: initial comprehensive, focused, ongoing, and discharge.
• The steps of health assessment include observation, inspection, interview, and documentation.
• Document conclusions
• Propose possible nursing diagnosis
• Factors affecting health assessment include culture, family and community, and spirituality.
• Check for Define Characteristics
• Confirm or rule out Diagnosis
• The evolution of the nurse's role in health assessment has seen a shift from a passive observer to an active participant.
• Critical thinking in health assessment involves analyzing subjective and objective data to make a professional nursing judgement.
• The client in context refers to culture, spirituality, and family.
• Culture is defined by four basic characteristics: communication, spatial orientation, chronological orientation, and territorial orientation.
• Culture-bound syndromes are conditions that are specific to certain cultural groups.
• Cultural competence involves understanding the cultural characteristics and health-related beliefs and practices of selected cultural groups.
• Spirituality is defined by three major world religions and common health beliefs.
• Family is defined and basic characteristics, and its role in illness is significant.
• Assessment is the gathering of information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual to determine a client's overall level of functioning in order to make a professional clinical judgment.
• The primary role of a nurse is as a primary data collector, guiding proper nursing interventions and leading to the identification of nursing diagnosis (signs and symptoms).
• Race is a classification of people according to shared biological characteristics, genetic markers or features.
• Culture is shared by all members of the group.
• Health assessment involves assessment of the individual as a whole, considering the individual's role in a cultural, family, spiritual, and community context, all of which affects the client's health status.
• Stereotyping is assuming all members of a culture or ethnic group are alike.
• Culture is adapted as environmental circumstances change, the group changes to improve its ability to survive.
• Goal-directed thinking that leads to better solutions by using new ideas or methods is a component of critical thinking.
• Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view your own way of culture as the most desirable, acceptable, or best, and to act in a superior manner toward other cultures.
• Universal intellectual standards for critical thinking are standards which must be applied to thinking whenever one is interested in checking the quality of reasoning about a problem, issue, or situation.
• Cultural imposition is the tendency to impose your beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on individuals from another culture.
• Precision in thinking is a universal intellectual standard for critical thinking.
• Culture is the totality of socially transmissible behavioral patterns, arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways, and all other products of human work and thought characteristic of a population or people that guide its worldview and decision making.
• Knowledge and experience are key elements in critical thinking.
• Relevance in thinking is a universal intellectual standard for critical thinking.
• Subculture is composed of people who have a distinct identity and yet are related to a larger cultural group.
• Critical thinking is a purposeful mental activity that includes problem-solving and decision-making that guides beliefs and actions.
• Culture is learned, transmitted from generation to generation, and learned through life experiences within one’s culture group.
• To think critically entails having command of these standards.
• Fairness in thinking is a universal intellectual standard for critical thinking.
• Culture shock is a disorder that occurs in response to transition from one cultural setting to another.
• The nursing process phases are: Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.
• Logic in thinking is a universal intellectual standard for critical thinking.
• Acculturation is the process where people adapt to or borrow traits from another culture.