NURS303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nursing Care Plan, Nursing Diagnosis, Clinical Pathway
15 Dec 2017
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After you identify a client"s nursing diagnoses and strengths, you begin planning nursing care. Priority setting is the ranking of nursing diagnoses or client problems, through the use of principles such as urgency or importance, to establish a preferential order for nursing actions. Establishing priorities or determining urgency of the identified health problems is done on the basis of their severity or physiological importance. Nursing diagnoses of conditions that, if untreated, result in harm to the client or others have the highest priorities. High priorities are sometimes both physiological and psychological and may address other basic human needs. Intermediate priority nursing diagnoses involve the nonemergency, non life-threatening needs of the client. Low-priority nursing diagnoses are not always directly related to a specific illness or prognosis but affect the client"s future well-being. Many low-priority diagnoses focus on the client"s long-term health care needs. The order of priorities changes as a client"s condition changes, sometimes within a matter of minutes.
