Critical Thinking in Health Assessment

1
Critical Thinking in Health Assessment
2
Assessment

• Definition-
• Subjective data
• Objective data
• Data Base

3
Diagnostic Reasoning

• Four Major Components
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.

4
Definitions

• Cue- a piece of information, a sign or symptom,
  or a piece of lab data
• Hypothesis- a tentative explanation for a cue or
  a set of cues

5
Clustering Data

• Groups assessment the data together
• Organizes the data to make a diagnosis

6
Nursing Process

• Steps
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.
• 5.
• 6.

7
Critical Thinking

• Definition-
• Allows us to
• -
• -
• -
• -

8
Critical Thinking Skills

• -
• -
• -
• -
• -
• -
• -

9
Skills cont

• -
• -
• -
• -
• -
• -
• -
• -

10
Health Concepts

• Illness
• Wellness
• Holistic Health
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

11
Collect Four Types of Data

• Complete
• Problem- Centered
• Follow- Up
• Emergency

12
Transcultural Considerations

• What is cultural assessment?
• -
• What is cultural competence?
• Ethnocentrism

13
Culture Characteristics

• Four characteristics
• - Learned
• - Shared
• - Adapted
• - Dynamic

14
Subcultures

• What are they?
• Identified by

15
Cultural Values

• Values-
• Norms-
• Dominant value orientation-

16
Family

• Types
• Beliefs, practices or customs are maintained or
  altered.
• Identify key decision makers, primary provider of
  care when giving health care

17
Religion and Spirituality

• Religion
• Spirituality

18
Illness and Culture

• Causes of Illness
• - Biomedical
• - Naturalistic
• - Magico- Religious

19
Expressions of Illness

• Pain
• - Ethnic background
• - Nurses perceptions and tolerance
• Culturally defined conditions

20
Expressions cont.

• Culture and Treatment
• - Self- Care on the U.S.
• Culture and Disease Prevalence

21
Interviewing

• Purposes
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.
• 5.
• 6.

22
Communication Process

• Definition
• Conscious, unconscious, verbal, nonverbal
• All behavior has meaning.

23
Process cont.

• Sending
• Receiving
• Internal Factors
• -
• -
• -
• External Factors-

24
Communication Techniques
25
Interviewing Traps
26
Interviewing People with Special Needs

• Older Adults
• Sensory Impaired
• Under the influence
• Crying
• Angry
• Anxious

27
Overcoming Barriers

• Interpreters
• Non- verbal Cross Cultural Communication