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Maternal Newborn Nursing

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Maternal Newborn NursingKey Terms

Key Terms

analyze cues
ability to determine what the patient cues mean within the context of the patient situation
clinical judgment
cognitive, decision-making process nurses perform while carrying out the nursing process
evaluate outcomes
ability to determine if the expected patient outcomes are met
generate solutions
ability to develop a plan to achieve patient outcomes
prioritize hypotheses
ability to arrange the identified patient problems based on urgency
recognize cues
ability to determine what information related to the patient situation is most important
take actions
ability to implement what intervention(s) to do first, next, or in order of sequence
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