NURSING 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nursing Process
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The nursing process is holistic and humanistic. It addressed the human response to medical conditions. These are the steps to organize and prioritize patient care. A crucial component of the nursing process, a care plan serves as a road map that guides all nurses involved in a patient"s care. The care plan also communicates vital patient information to the entire health care team. The care plan contains detailed instructions for achieving the goals established for the patient. It helps you think critically, solve problems, and make care decisions tailored to each patient"s individual needs. The nursing process requires you to systematically analyze patient data, make inferences, draw conclusions about patient problems, devise a care plan to address those problems, implement the plan, evaluate the plan"s effectiveness, and revise the plan if necessary. Assessing collecting, validating, and communicating of patient data. Diagnosing analyzing patient data to identify patient strengths and problems. Planning specifying patient outcomes (goals) and related nursing interventions.
