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Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing
First Edition
Chapter 1
The Care Cycle
Donita D’Amicoand
Colleen Barbarito
Figure 1.6 Nursing process.
Steps of the Care Cycle:•Assessment•Diagnosis•Planning•Implementation•Evaluation
Assessment
The collection, organization and validation of subjective (concluded) and objective (based in fact) data
Diagnosis
Use of Critical Thinking and Application of Knowledge from the Sciences and Other Disciplines to Analyze and Synthesize Data
Critical Thinking
A Purposeful and Creative Approach to Resolution of Problems and Management of Situations
Critical Thinking Is…
• Data Collection• Analysis of the
Situation• Generation and
Selection of Alternatives
• Evaluation
Data Collection• Identifying assumptions• Organizing data
collection• Determining reliability
of data• Identifying relevant
versus irrelevant data• Identifying
inconsistencies in data
Analysis of the Situation• Distinguishing data
as normal or abnormal
• Clustering related data
• Identifying patterns in data
• Identifying missing information
• Drawing valid conclusions
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