FUNDA

• Collaborative problems


  Present when a particular disease or treatment is present
• Diagnostic process


  uses critical thinking skills of analysis and synthesis
• Analysis


  Separation into components that is the breaking down of the whole into its parts
• Synthesis


  Putting together of parts into the whole
• Standard or norm


  generally accepted measure, rule, model, or pattern
• Data clustering


  Process of determining the related facts and determining whether any patterns are present
• Skillful assessment


  Minimizes gaps and inconsistencies in data
• Syndrome diagnosis


  a diagnosis that is associated with a cluster of other diagnoses
• Unknown etiology


  Defining characteristics are present but the nurse does not know the cause or contributing factors
• Complex factors


  when there are too many etiologic factors or when they are too complex to state in a brief phrase
• Word "possible"


  To describe either the problem or etiology
• Secondary to


  To divide the etiology into two parts
• Verify


  Hypothesize possible explanations of the data, but realize that all diagnoses are only tentative until its verified
• Planning


  Intentional, systematic phase of the nursing process that involves decision-making and problem solving
• Nursing intervention


  any treatment based upon clinical judgment and knowledge that a nurse performs to enhance patient/client outcomes
• Planning


  Begins with the first client contact and continues until the nurse-client relationship ends
• Initial planning


  The nurse who performs the admission assessment usually develops the initial comprehensive plan of care.
• On going planning


  Occurs at the beginning of the shift as the nurse plans the care to be given that day.