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What is one of the goals of the nursing process?
What is one of the goals of the nursing process?
How does the nursing process help protect nurses against legal issues?
How does the nursing process help protect nurses against legal issues?
What aspect does the nursing process focus on besides physical health?
What aspect does the nursing process focus on besides physical health?
Why is it important for the healthcare team to observe and interact with the patient?
Why is it important for the healthcare team to observe and interact with the patient?
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What is meant by 'the diabetic in room 4B' in the context of the nursing process?
What is meant by 'the diabetic in room 4B' in the context of the nursing process?
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In what way does the nursing process help in delivering nursing interventions?
In what way does the nursing process help in delivering nursing interventions?
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Study Notes
Goals/Purposes of the Nursing Process
- To identify the client's health states and actual or potential health care problems or needs through assessment
- To establish plans to meet the identified needs
- To deliver specific nursing interventions to meet those needs
- To apply the best available caregiving evidence and promote human function and responses to health and illness
- To protect nurses against legal problems related to nursing care when the standards of the nursing process are followed correctly
- To help nurses perform in a systematically organized way their practice
- To establish a database about the client's health status, health concerns, response to illness, and the ability to manage health care needs
Scope/Focus of the Nursing Process
- The process is holistic and addresses physical, emotional, psychosocial, psychological, developmental, and spiritual well-being of the patient
- The nursing process involves looking at the whole patient at all times
- It personalizes the patient, focusing on the individual rather than just their condition (e.g. not just "the diabetic in room 4B")
- It forces the health care team to observe and interact with the patient, not just the task they are performing (e.g. not just performing a dressing change or bed bath)
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Test your knowledge on the goals and purposes of the nursing process, which involves assessing a patient's health status, identifying needs, creating plans, and implementing nursing interventions to meet those needs.
