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Nursing Process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔critical thinking five-step process
Involves looking at the whole patient at all times
Personalizes the patient
,It provides a "road map" that ensures good nursing care & improves patient
outcomes
What is process? What is Nursing Process? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Process-
series of planned actions performed to achieve a goal.
Nursing Process-A systematic problem--solving process that guides all
nursing actions.
What is the nursing process? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Orderly, step by step
process. Client is evaluated (assessment). Data are collected and analyzed
(Diagnosis). Plan of care is determined and set into motion (planning and
implementation) Client is monitored, evaluated (evaluation), Care plan is
revised as needed (evaluation)
What should you do if your plan did not work? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Go back
and analyze every step of the concept map.
What does an assessment include? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔anything you know
about the patient---what the family says, etc. Note if there was an argument
etc.
,Why is the nursing process important? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Method of
planning and providing care
Includes problem solving and decision making
Promotes organization
Each step overlaps with previous and subsequent steps
Scientifically based
Provides a framework for nursing
Client centered
Promotes quality care
Promotes coordinated, ongoing care
Serves as a guide to avoid omissions or inaccuracies
Promotes collaboration with other disciplines
What is the medical process? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔focuses on illness, injury, or
disease. Does not vary until treatment is completed. (What are you here
for?) Quick.
What is the nursing process? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔focuses on the client's
response to actual or potential health problems. Is dynamic and fluid,
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, changing in response to changes in the client condition. (interested on
impact on people. Ex: can patient afford this prescription? Dr.'s depend on
nurses to let them know these things)
What do I need in order to use the Nursing Process? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Critical thinking.
What is the biggest part of critical thinking? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an ability to
reflect (Did I miss something?) Have knowledge and know how to apply it
(tomato in fruit salad) Have to be able to admit when you're wrong.
Why do nurses have to use critical thinking? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Because
nurses
Use complex critical - thinking processes, problem solving, decision making
in every aspect of their work.
Must constantly assess and evaluate client responses
Deal with complex problems on a daily basis
Work with clients that are unique
Provide holistic care