Nursing 1160A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nursing Process
9 Dec 2016
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Week 4: thinking like a nurse - tools to make clinical decisions. Nurses use the nursing process while listening to the patient"s story, in order to answer questions. Can be used in any practice setting, can be applied anywhere. It consists of 5 steps: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Work with the client to choose the desired outcomes: make sure it is the client"s goals that are being prioritized, not yours. It is important to incorporate in the plan the client"s strengths. Include other members of the interprofessional team as identified. A formative & summative process, revised as necessary. Noticing- the nurse develops a perceptual grasp of the situation. Document interventions & client"s responses. expectations, influenced in turn by the nurse"s background, relationship with the patient, and clinical. Reflection- nurses consider the patient"s response to interventions (reflection-in-action) and review the. Responding- determining an appropriate course of action. context. Interpreting- nurses make meaning of available data. whole situation (reflection-on-action).
