Nursing Process

• consists of doing and documenting the activities that are the specific nursing actions needed to carry out the interventions.

• Nurse either performs or delegates the activities for the interventions that were developed in the planning step.

• Assessment

• Nursing Diagnosis

• Planning

• Implementation

• Evaluation

Purpose of the Nursing Process

• • To identify a client’s health status

• To identify client's health history

• • To identify actual or potential health care problems or needs

• • To establish plans to meet the identified needs

• • To deliver specific nursing interventions to meet those needs.

When was the term “nursing process” coined

• 1961

• 1967

• 1955

• 1953

When was the nursing process formally introduced as a tool for nursing practice.

• 1961

• 1967

• 1955

• 1953

In this phase, nurses use critical thinking skills to interpret assessment data and identify client strengths and problems
is a pivotal step in the nursing process.

• Assessment

• Nursing Diagnosis

• Planning

• Implementation

• Evaluation

• process of designing an action plan through which lifestyle behaviors can be prevented, reduced or eliminated.

  involves decision making and problem solving.

  End product of the planning phase is the NURSING CARE PLAN.

• Assessment

• Nursing Diagnosis

• Planning

• Implementation

• Evaluation

defined as a planned, ongoing, purposeful activity in which clients & healthcare professionals

• Assessment

• Nursing Diagnosis

• Planning

• Implementation

• Evaluation

clinical judgment about individual, family, or community

responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes

• etiology

• medical diagnosis

• nursing diagnosis

statement written in objective format demonstrating an expectation to be achieved in resolution of the nursing diagnosis over a long period of time, usually over sweeks or month

• Short-term outcome

• Long-term outcome

• Outcome

statement written in objective format demonstrating an expectation to be achieved in resolution of the nursing diagnosis in a short period of time, usually in a few hours or days.

as students in hospitals

• Short-term outcome

• Long-term outcome

• Outcome