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Understanding and Applying the Nursing Process (ADPIE) Study Guide

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Professional Standards, Communication, and Clinical Judgement

Caputi Clinical Judgement Competencies and Steps

This content outlines Caputi clinical judgement competencies including determining actions to take, taking action, and evaluating outcomes and thinking.

  • Selecting Interventions
  • Managing Potential Complications
  • Setting Priorities
  • Implementing Planned Interventions
  • Assigning and Delegation
  • Communicating
  • Teaching Others
  • Evaluating Data
  • Evaluating and Correcting Thinking

Nursing Quality and Patient Safety

Factors affecting nursing safety include equipment design flaws, ineffective communication, and complex systems, requiring adherence to CNO standards and CPSI safety competencies.

  • Patient safety culture
  • CPSI safety competencies
  • CNO standards and guidelines
  • Risks in health care settings
  • Client abuse prevention
  • Adverse event incident strategies
  • Restraint types and risks
  • Alternatives to restraints
  • Interprofessional communication and teamwork
  • Occupational health and safety

Confidentiality and Privacy of Personal Health Information

Nurses have ethical and legal responsibilities to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of client health information under the Personal Health Information Protection Act.

  • Ethical and legal responsibilities
  • Confidentiality and privacy
  • Personal health information
  • Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)
  • Client rights regarding personal health information

Legal and Ethical Confidentiality Responsibilities

Legal and ethical responsibility to maintain confidentiality involves the Privacy Act and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act regarding what can be shared and how information is stored.

  • Confidentiality
  • Privacy Act
  • Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
  • PIPEDA
  • Information storage
  • Information sharing

Nursing Confidentiality and Privacy Standards

Nurses must maintain client confidentiality and promote PHIPA by obtaining express consent before disclosing information outside the health team.

  • Client confidentiality
  • Confidentiality and Privacy Standard
  • Express consent
  • Social media disclosure

Conflict Prevention and Management in Nursing

This material explores conflict resolution strategies, personal conflict styles, and the positive effects of conflict within nurse-client and colleague relationships.

  • Conflict definition
  • Collaborative nurse-client relationship
  • Effective communication characteristics
  • Accommodation
  • Avoidance
  • Collaboration
  • Compromise
  • Competition
  • Positive effects of conflict
  • Conflict prevention and management

Conflict Resolution in Nursing Practice

Strategies for managing conflict involving clients, colleagues, and employer factors to support the therapeutic nurse-client relationship and professional work environments.

  • Causes of conflict with clients
  • Causes of conflict with colleagues
  • Strategies for nurse-nurse conflict
  • Clinical encounters with angry clients
  • Employer factors to conflict
  • De-escalation of conflict
  • Therapeutic nurse-client relationship
  • Professional behaviours
  • Critical incident management

Therapeutic Communication and Professional Nursing Relationships

An overview of therapeutic communication, relational practice, and the CNO’s Practice Standard for the therapeutic nurse-client relationship.

  • Therapeutic communication
  • Relational practice
  • Therapeutic nurse-client relationship
  • Pre-interaction phase
  • Orientation phase
  • Working phase
  • Termination phase
  • Elements of professional communication
  • Nurse-patient helping relationships
  • Inter-professional collaborative practice relationships
  • Relational skills
  • Mutuality
  • Authenticity

Therapeutic Communication and Relational Practice

This content explores levels of communication, basic elements of the communication process, verbal and non-verbal forms, active listening, and strategies for communicating with patients who have special needs.

  • Levels of communication
  • Basic elements of the communication process
  • Verbal communication
  • Non-verbal communication
  • Active listening
  • Negative listening responses
  • Culturally safe care
  • Intercultural communication
  • Zones of personal space and touch
  • Nurse-client relationship components
  • Communicating with cognitively impaired patients
  • Communicating with patients with aphasia, dysarthria, or muteness
  • Communicating with hearing impaired patients
  • Communicating with visually impaired patients
  • Communicating with unresponsive patients
  • Communicating with non-English speaking patients
  • Therapeutic communication techniques
  • Nontherapeutic communication techniques

Foundations of Nursing Care and Clinical Safety

Infection Prevention and Control Principles

This content explains the chain of infection, the nature of infectious agents, reservoirs, modes of transmission, and the stages of the infectious process.

  • Chain of infection
  • Infectious agents
  • Reservoirs
  • Modes of transmission
  • Portal of entry
  • Susceptible host

Infection Types, Precautions, and Control Measures

Infection prevention and control involves medical asepsis, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, and transmission-based precautions to reduce the transfer of organisms.

  • Health Care–Associated Infections
  • Exogenous infection
  • Endogenous infection
  • Medical Asepsis
  • Hand Hygiene
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Transmission-based precautions
  • Routine practices
  • Contact precautions
  • Droplet precautions
  • Airborne precautions
  • Environmental cleaning and disinfection
  • Respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette
  • Safe injection practices
  • Sharps safety
  • Equipment reprocessing
  • Waste and linen management

Clinical Judgment and Nursing Assessment Competencies

This content outlines cognitive guidance tools for determining important information, scanning the environment, identifying signs and symptoms, and making meaning of client data through clinical judgment competencies.

  • Determining important information to collect
  • Scanning the environment
  • Identifying signs and symptoms
  • Systematic and comprehensive assessment
  • Ensuring accurate information
  • Making meaning of information
  • Clustering related information
  • Identifying assumptions
  • Recognizing inconsistencies
  • Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information
  • Judging ambiguity
  • Comparing and contrasting
  • Predicting potential complications
  • Collaborating with healthcare team members
  • Determining client care needs

Mobility and Immobility Principles

This content covers the physiology of body mechanics, pathological influences on mobility, systemic effects of immobility, and nursing interventions for prevention and implementation.

  • Body mechanics
  • Alignment
  • Postural abnormalities
  • Central Nervous System damage
  • Musculoskeletal trauma
  • Bed rest
  • Atelectasis
  • Hypostatic pneumonia
  • Orthostatic hypotension
  • Thrombus
  • Muscle atrophy
  • Renal calculi
  • Pressure ulcer
  • Psychosocial effects
  • Range of motion
  • Fowler’s position
  • Supine
  • Prone

Quality and Patient Safety Fundamentals

Discuss quality of care, patient safety, and adverse events within the health care system.

  • Quality of care
  • Patient Safety
  • Adverse Events
  • Harmful incident
  • Near Miss
  • No-harm incident
  • Patient Restraints Minimization Act
  • Abuse Prevention
  • Medication Error Prevention
  • Patient safety culture

Nursing Principles of Personal Hygiene Care

Personal hygiene affects an individual’s comfort, safety, and physical and psychological well-being through the provision of hygiene care and assessment of patient needs.

  • Personal hygiene practices
  • Nursing process
  • Critical thinking
  • Patient assessment
  • Skin integrity
  • Cultural sensitivity
  • Patient privacy
  • Safety guidelines
  • Body mechanics
  • Perineal care
  • Oral hygiene
  • Dentures
  • Aspiration precautions
  • Hair and scalp care
  • Nail and foot care
  • Diabetes and foot care
  • Delegation to unregulated care providers

Communication Processes and Clinical Reporting Techniques

This content covers therapeutic communication, relational practice, and professional nursing communication techniques including the I-SBAR-R reporting process.

  • Therapeutic communication techniques
  • Nontherapeutic communication techniques
  • Verbal communication
  • Nonverbal communication
  • Zones of personal space
  • Zones of touch
  • Nurse–patient helping relationships
  • I-SBAR-R technique
  • Reporting at change of shift
  • Professional nursing relationships

Fundamentals of Nutrition Assessment and Interventions

Fundamentals of Nutrition Assessment and Therapeutic Diets

This content covers the role of major nutrients, methods of nutritional assessment, and the application of therapeutic diets and texture modifications for specific medical conditions.

  • Role of major nutrients
  • Energy intake and expenditure balance
  • Nutritional assessment methods
  • Canada’s Dietary Guidelines
  • Nursing Process in nutrition
  • Therapeutic diets
  • Texture modified diets
  • International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative (IDDSI)
  • Dysphagia management
  • Clear and full liquid diets
  • Soft and mechanical soft diets
  • Low-residue and low-fiber diets
  • Renal diets
  • Diabetes-friendly diets
  • Heart-healthy diets
  • Fluid restriction
  • Aspiration prevention

Fundamentals of Nutrition and Nutrient Classes

An overview of the six classes of nutrition including carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.

  • Carbohydrates
  • Simple Carbohydrates
  • Complex Carbohydrates
  • Glycemic Index
  • Proteins
  • Amino acids
  • Complete Proteins
  • Incomplete Proteins
  • Lipids
  • Saturated fat
  • Unsaturated fat
  • Vitamins
  • Minerals
  • H2O (water)

Nutrition Assessment and Nutritional Support

This topic covers digestion, absorption, metabolism, and elimination processes alongside enteral and parenteral nutrition, nutrition assessment factors, and nutritional needs during growth and development.

  • Digestion
  • Absorption
  • Metabolism
  • Elimination
  • Enteral nutrition
  • Parenteral nutrition
  • Nutrition assessment
  • Subjective data
  • Oral cavity assessment
  • Eating patterns
  • Nutritional needs during growth and development
  • Breastfeeding
  • Lactation
  • Eating disorders

Nutrition Assessment and Healthy Eating Patterns

This content covers Canada’s Food Guide, alternative food patterns, mealtime safety, and nursing diagnoses related to nutrition.

  • Alternative Food Patterns
  • Vegetarian diets
  • Canada’s Food Guide
  • Healthy eating patterns
  • Nutrient needs
  • Mealtime safety
  • Nursing diagnoses
  • Imbalanced nutrition
  • Risk for aspiration
  • Feeding self-care deficit

Nutrition Assessment and Nursing Interventions

Clinical signs of nutritional status, planning and goal setting, and implementation of nutritional interventions for clients with malnutrition.

  • Clinical signs of nutritional status
  • Planning and goal setting
  • Nutritional intervention and implementation
  • Evaluation of nutritional effectiveness
  • Protein-calorie malnutrition
  • Client education and meal planning
  • Food diary protocol
  • Nutritional assessment

The Nursing Process and Clinical Judgement

The Nursing Process and ADPIE

A systematic approach to patient care using a cognitive framework of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation to identify and treat health issues.

  • Nursing Process
  • ADPIE
  • Assessment
  • Subjective Data
  • Objective Data
  • Nursing Diagnosis
  • Data Collection
  • Clinical Judgement
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data Documentation
  • Data Analysis

Types and Components of Nursing Diagnosis

This content explains the types of nursing diagnosis, including problem-focused, risk, and health promotion, and details the components of forming two-part and three-part PES diagnostic statements using NANDA terminology.

  • Problem-focused diagnosis
  • Risk diagnosis
  • Health promotion diagnosis
  • NANDA-I nursing terminology
  • PES three-part system
  • Etiology
  • Defining characteristics
  • Related factors
  • Nursing process planning

Critical Thinking and Acute Pain Management

Critical thinking is essential for assessment, research, and implementing nonpharmacological and pharmacological pain-relief interventions.

  • Critical thinking in assessment
  • Evidence-based research
  • Nonpharmacological pain-relief interventions
  • Cognitive-behavioral and physical approaches
  • Pharmacological pain-relief interventions
  • Nonopioid analgesics
  • Opioid analgesics
  • Adjuvants
  • APA citation

The Nursing Process Planning Implementation and Evaluation

This content details the nursing process steps including SMART goal setting, implementation of independent or dependent interventions, and the continuous evaluation of client outcomes.

  • ADPIE
  • SMART Goals
  • Nursing Diagnoses
  • Expected Outcomes
  • Short-Term Goals
  • Long-Term Goals
  • Nursing Interventions
  • Independent Interventions
  • Dependent Interventions
  • Collaborative Interventions
  • Pharmacologic Pain Relief
  • Non-pharmacologic Pain Relief
  • Evaluation Process
  • Care Plan

Caputi Clinical Judgement Framework Overview

  • Caputi’s Clinical Judgement Framework
  • Getting the information
  • Making meaning of the information
  • Determining actions to take
  • Taking action
  • Evaluating outcomes and your thinking
  • Recognizing cues
  • Assessing systematically and comprehensively
  • Clustering related information
  • Identifying assumptions
  • Predicting potential complications
  • Selecting interventions
  • Managing potential complications
  • Evaluating data

Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice

A process and set of skills involving the relationship between critical thinking, patient-centred care, and the nursing process for clinical decision making.

  • Critical thinking definition
  • Clinical decision making
  • Nursing process
  • ADPIE
  • Levels of critical thinking
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Critical thinking attitudes
  • Reflective writing
  • Case-based learning
  • Concept mapping
  • Nursing judgement
  • Patient-centred care

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