A systemic, dynamic process by which the nurse, through interaction with the patient, significant others, and health care providers, collects and analyzes data about the patient is known as ______________________
ANS:
assessment
The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines assessment as "a systemic, dynamic process by which the nurse, through interaction with the client, significant others, and health care providers, collects and analyzes data about the client."
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A. "Potassium affects how the heart works and you could have a heart attack if this is not corrected." B. "Your kidneys could quit working during surgery and the surgery would have to be cancelled." C. "We want you to have the best recovery after surgery. Sometimes, if this problem is not corrected before surgery, you may be too sleepy after surgery to talk to your family." D. "By making sure your potassium is normal before surgery, it will keep your heart functioning at its best during your surgery."
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A) The ability to be ethical begins in young adulthood. B) Ethics cannot be defined as a code of professional conduct. C) Ethics usually refers to personal or communal standards of right and wrong. D) It is important to distinguish ethics from religion, law, custom, and institutional practices. E) Values are intimately related to, and direct, ethical conduct. F) Ethics is a systematic inquiry into principles of right and wrong conduct.
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