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The document provides an overview of the nursing process, outlining its key steps and purposes. The nursing process is a systematic problem-solving approach used by nurses to identify, prevent, and treat health problems. It involves assessing a client's health status, determining care goals and interventions, implementing the plan of care, and evaluating outcomes. The nursing process is dynamic, client-centered, goal-directed, and universally applicable across settings.

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Rotation 2-WPS Office

The document provides an overview of the nursing process, outlining its key steps and purposes. The nursing process is a systematic problem-solving approach used by nurses to identify, prevent, and treat health problems. It involves assessing a client's health status, determining care goals and interventions, implementing the plan of care, and evaluating outcomes. The nursing process is dynamic, client-centered, goal-directed, and universally applicable across settings.

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Rotation 2

SESSION 6: OVERVIEW OF THE NURSING PROCESS

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the module, the learners will be able to:

1. Identify Nursing Process, its purposes and nature.


2. Define each steps (5) of Nursing Process.
3. Identify the benefits and basis for utilizing Nursing Process.

THE NURSING PROCESS


Nursing Process is a systematic, problem-solving approach used to identify, prevent and treat actual or
potential health problems and promote wellness. It provides the framework in which nurses use their
knowledge andskills to express human caring. (Wilkinson,J. 1996, p.4)
A process is a series of steps or acts that lead to accomplishment of some goal or purpose. The purpose
of the nursing process is to provide care for clients that is individualized, holistic, effective, and efficient.
The steps of the nursing process build upon each other, but they are not linear.

There is overlap of each step with the previous and subsequent steps (Figure 5-1).The nursing process is
dynamic and requires creativity for its application. The steps remain the same, but the application and
results will be different in each client situation. The nursing process is designed to be used with clients
throughout the life span and in any setting in which a nurse provides care for clients. It is also a basic
organizing system for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN).
PURPOSES OF NURSING PROCESS
 to identify a client's health care status and actual or potential health problems,

 to determine priorities of care goals and expected outcomes,


 to establish nursing intervention to meet client-centered needs,
 to meet the identified needs,
 to deliver specific nursing interventions to address those needs,
 to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care in achieving client goals.

NATURE OF THE NURSING PROCESS


1. The nursing process is dynamic and cyclic. Each step may be reviewed and revised according to
changing client responses to nursing interventions which may necessitate revisions in the plan of care.
There is no absolute beginning or end.
2. It is client-centered. The plan of care is based on the individual’s need. The client is motivated and
assisted to assume primary responsibility for his own health care.

3. It is planned and goal-directed. The plan of care and nursing intervention is organized and carefully
chosen to meet the client’s goals of care.
4. It is universally acceptable. The process is applicable to any client regardless of age, medical diagnosis,
social status, any setting, across specialties and at any point in the illness-wellness continuum.
5. It is an intellectual process. Nurses utilize knowledge in problem solving, decision making, and critical
thinking as they assess their client’s problems, plan their care, implement this plan and evaluate the
effectiveness of the care they provide.

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