Common Nursing Terms

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Across
  1. 1. a way of checking understanding by asking patients to state in their own words what they need to know or do about their health
  2. 3. an approach to learning that involves a process of exploring the natural or material world, and that leads to asking questions, making discoveries, and testing those discoveries in the search for new understanding
  3. 6. an indirect signal that a patient uses to try to alert the doctor to a question or concern
  4. 7. the process of reflective and reasonable thinking about nursing problems without a single solution and is focused on deciding what to believe and do
  5. 9. The nurse reviews the relevant client data and determines what they mean
  6. 10. a measurable individual, family, or community state, behavior or perception that is measured along a continuum in response to nursing interventions
  7. 11. the process of acknowledging the receipt of information and clarifying with the sender of the communicated message that the information received is the same as the original, intended information.
Down
  1. 2. the process by which nurses make decisions
  2. 4. to organize and prioritize patient care, internal administrative tasks, educational responsibilities and personal obligations
  3. 5. The ability to look at a situation and determine what is most important, what is time-sensitive, what is critical to the desired outcome and ultimately what to do first and next
  4. 8. a proposed explanation for a situation