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The Nursing Process is a critical thinking process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to caregiving and to promoting human functions and responses to health and illness. The nursing process is continuous and dynamic, so you may move back and forth among the steps. Nursing assessment helps nurses to form a clear definition of the patient’s problems, which in turn provides the foundation for planning and implementing nursing interventions and evaluating the outcomes of care.
The nursing process is also a standard of practice, which, when followed correctly, protects nurses against legal problems related to nursing care (Potter, 2023). Patient care starts with this acronym we call ADPIE. There are five steps to the nursing process that functions as a systematic guide to patients that every nurse must and should follow (NCBI, 2023). These steps are known as assessment, diagnose, planning, implementation, and evaluation. In the assessment phase, which has two stages (collection/verification and analysis of data), is used to gather subjective information (collecting vital signs and reviewing that patient’s medical history). The data in the assessment phase will be used to develop the nursing diagnosis, identify collaborative problems, and develop an individualized plan of care (Potter, 2023). Next, diagnosis stage (the base for patient care) is to identify the patient’s problem by making clinical judgements from the assessment phase. Diagnostic conclusions include problems treated primarily by nurses (nursing diagnoses) and those treated by several disciplines (collaborative problems). Together, nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems represent the range of patient conditions that require nursing care. Once that is done, we are then off to the planning stage that helps set goals of care and desired outcomes. The planning stage also identifies appropriate nursing actions. The next step, implementation, involves performing the planned interventions. Lastly, you evaluate your client’s response and determine if goals and expected outcomes are achieved.
This nursing process can be used to provide patient care in so many ways, shapes, and forms. To provide quality patient care over a period, nurses need a roadmap that guides their actions and quantifies desired outcomes. As a registered nurse, you will be responsible for creating a plan of care based on each patient’s needs and health goals (Mozafaripour, 2023). For the assessment phase of nursing process, you will ask your patient for instance, if they’re in pain and to rate their pain scale. For the diagnosis phase, as a nurse you will look at their medical diagnosis and associate it to the reason why the patient has pain or discomfort. In the planning phase, the nurse will know that every two hours you are going in their room to check on that patient and anticipating what pain relief you will be giving. For the implementation part of the nursing process is when you will offer the patient pain medicine as needed, repositioning for comfort, providing back rubs or distraction. For the evaluation phase, you will go back and check for the effectiveness of the whatever intervention was done. These five steps are used repeatedly and furthermore, cyclically during each patient care and must be followed in the correct chorological order. Following the steps from beginning to end will help to meet you and the patient curiosity along with their needs. Providing them top tier patient care and 100% patient satisfaction. Any treatments, procedures, or teaching moments intended to improve the patient’s comfort and health is known as nursing interventions. These are actions a nurse takes to implement their patient care nursing plan (Mozafaripour, 2023).
References:
Potter, P.A. (2023). Fundamentals of Nursing. Elsevier.
Nursing process – statpearls – NCBI bookshelf. (n.d.). Retrieved February 3, 2023, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499937/
Mozafaripour, S. (2023, January 30). Nursing interventions and implementing patient care plans: USAHS. University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences. Retrieved February 3, 2023, from https://www.usa.edu/blog/nursing-interventions/
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