NURS1000 Lecture 3: Lecture week three
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The way that care is organised to deliver holistic, patient-centred/patient-focused care to ensure that the individual needs of each patient are fulfilled is known as the nursing pocess. Steps of nursing process: assessment of the patient: obtain subjective and objective data and gain an understanding of the patients" symptoms. Subjective data is information that the patient, other healthcare professionals, family or friends tell you. This data is expected to be quoted, it tells you the patients" perspectives, perceptions and experiences. Objective data is information that you observe or measure. Includes things such as lab results, trays, observations made during auscultation, palpation etc: diagnosis: has three components. 2. 1 diagnosis: there are three types of diagnosis: medical, nursing and collaborative. The nursing diagnosis must be three part (actual) or two part (risk of). 2. 2 related to: this is finding the problem and relating it to the etiology factors or cause.