Nursing Process Quiz: Goals and Purposes Study

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)

Description

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.