Core Concepts 3 Answers 2024
Communication -
✔-Refers to the exchange of information, feelings, thoughts and ideas
-With other healthcare professionals, family, patients, doctor
Assessment -
✔-We do continual assessment every time we enter the room
-Assessment is assessment regardless of the age group, however it is different when
you go about doing that assessment
-Assessment of infants and children requires a different assessment approach that
requires extra steps to gain trust and understanding
-Assessment of older adults requires a comprehensive understanding of the factors
aging plays in physical, social, mental, and emotional health
Holistic assessment includes -
✔-AIDET
-Gain trust/ report
-Complete Health history
-Cultural assessment
-Comprehensive Physical assessment
-Comprehensive psychosocial assessment
Four important things that need to be assessed for each time -
✔Nutrition, developmental milestones, caregiver issues, well visits (that include
health screens)
Documentation -
✔Is done all on electronic health records
Critical Thinking -
✔Always be thinking and examining and questioning
AIDET -
✔-Acknowledge
-Introduce
-Duration
-Explanation
-Thank you
Patient and Safety Education for Nurses -
✔-Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes (KSAs)
-Better quality of patient care
-Improved safety in healthcare settings
Patient Centered-Care -
✔-First competency of nursing
-Clients are partners in their care, and thus their perspectives, beliefs, and culture
need to be taken into account during their care
Quality Improvement -
✔-Second competency of nursing
-Adverse events must be monitored and reported so they can be tools for learning in
similar situations in the future and catalysts for improvements in quality and safety
Evidence-Based Practice -
✔-Third competency of nursing
-Medicine is evolving and changing everyday, and thus current medical findings must
be monitored for possibility of improved care
