Unit 1 Introduction to Pharmacology The Nursing Process and Patient-Centered Care

1. Nursing Process: Systematic way of gathering and using information to plan and provide individualized care. it describe who, what, when, where, why, how of the nursing practice, including drug administration. The five steps of the nursing process are assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. 2. Concept: CONCEPT: centers its focus for nursing care around the reason care is being provided to the pt. it is more holistic view of the pt. rather that the disease model. the 'concept includes' health, illness and health promotion of the pt. by focusing to the concept the nurse will provide patient education, restorative, health needs, medication administration, and possibly emergency conclude it simply organizing the pt. health problem and taking necessary action. 3. explain the steps of nursing process and how each steps relate to safe drug administration: Assessment, patient problem, planning, implementation, evaluation. 4. Assessment: the systematic collection, organization, validation, and documen- tation of patient data, (medication assessment) focus on whether the patient is experiencing the expected therapeutic benefits from the medications, dosage review, serum levels obtained, also identify any adverse effects,baseline data compared with current assessment to determine what changes have occured, assess the ability of the patient to assume responsibility for self-administration of medications-next diagnosis phase 5. Patient probelem: the pt. problem is made based on the analysis of the assess- ment data and it determines the type of care the pt. will receive. ex. abdominal pain, confusion, decreased adherence, need for health teaching, cognitive teaching, nonadherence. use of patient problem is beneficial to the pt because its focus is on the individual pt care as related to the actual problems derived from the pt.. illness and not the actual disease. 6. Planning: prioritizes diagnoses, formulated desired outcomes, and selects nursing interventions that can assist the patient to return to establish an optimum of wellness, short and long term goals are established, links the strategies, or interventions to the established goals and outcomes, involves drug administration and patient teaching.