The Nursing Process

Class: Year2, Nursing Students
Topic: Phases of the Nursing Process

What is the Nursing Process?

A systematic, rational method of planning and providing individualized nursing care. (Berman & Snyder, 2012).

Purposes of the Nursing Process:

—To identify client’s health status and actual or potential health care needs/problems
—To establish plans to meet to meet identified needs
—To deliver specific nursing interventions to meet identified needs

Phases of the Nursing Process:

• Assessment 

The main purpose of this phase is to establish a database about the client’s response to health concerns or illness and the ability to manage health problems through validation and collection of data (Berman & Snyder, 2012; Taylor, Lillis, LeMone & Lynn, 2011 ).

• Diagnosis 

 This is the nurse’s clinical judgment about the client’s response to actual or potential health conditions or needs. The main purpose is to identify client strengths and health problems that can be prevented or resolved by collaborative and independent nursing interventions (Berman & Snyder, 2012; Taylor, Lillis, LeMone & Lynn, 2011).

• Planning / Goal / Outcome 

Based on the assessment and diagnosis, measurable and achievable short and long term goals are set for patients in order to determine how to prevent, reduce, or resolve the identified priority client problems; how to support client strengths; and how to implement nursing interventions in an organized, individualized, and goal oriented manner (Berman & Snyder, 2012; Taylor, Lillis, LeMone & Lynn, 2011 ). 

• Implementation 

Implementation is done base on a care plan. The main purpose is to assist patients meet desired goals/outcomes; promote wellness; prevent illness; restore health; and facilitate coping with altered functioning. (Berman & Snyder, 2012; Taylor, Lillis, LeMone & Lynn, 2011 ). 

• Evaluation 

The purpose of this phase is to determine whether to continue, modify, or terminate the plan of care (Berman & Snyder, 2012; Taylor, Lillis, LeMone & Lynn, 2011 ). 

QUESTION: Do you think these phases are equally important and why?

Below is a video to recap the Nursing  Process as well as some useful links:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4699506/

https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.12968/bjha.2017.11.8.388

Reference: 

žBerman, A., & Snyder, S. J. (2012). Kozier & Erb’s fundamentals of nursing: Concepts, process, and practice (9th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education Inc.