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The application of the nursing process to a patient scenario

The nursing process is a system that can be used to organize and deliver the

nursing care. The process contains five steps which include; assessment, diagnosis,

planning, implementation and evaluation. The overview of these steps is shown below.

i. Assessment

Assessment involves the systematic collection of information. It is the first step in

the nursing process where the nurse is also supposed to write a care plan. The assessment

stage is helpful to the nurse because it helps him/her to know more about the condition of

the patient. The day before the clinical the nurse is also supposed to draft a care plan

based on the information gathered from the patient’s records. This draft is supposed to

show more information about the patient including his/her history, any current

medications, the purpose of coming to the hospital and the current health condition. This

is an important step because it gives the nurse all the necessary information about the

patient such that he/she can still proceed with the care plan even if the patient is away.

ii. Diagnosis

The nursing diagnosis is involves clinical judgment about the actual problem that the

patient is facing. The nurse can thereafter use their own assessment to know the most

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appropriate care that the patient is supposed to be given. All nurses need to follow the

rules set by The North American Nursing Diagnoses Association(NANDA). Any

diagnoses found on the nurse’s care plan need to be approved by NANDA because it is

the organization that provides a common language that all nurses across the globe can get

to understand. A nurse is supposed to start learning the diagnostic procedures set by

NANDA right after joining their first year in college. For instance in the first year the

nurse get to learn five diagnoses. In the second year the nurse will get to learn 15 more. In

the diagnosis step the writing process is also very useful because it enables the nurse to

rank the patient’s problems and deal on them according to their priorities.

iii. Planning

This is the phase where the nurse decides on the appropriate care that the patient

needs to be given. The nurse also looks for the best measures that needs to be undertaken

during the treatment process. It also involves making interventions on each of the listed

diagnosis and trying to decide whether they will be carried out with patient. One of the

best example in the planning process reads: “if the patients is obese then probably you

need to position in reverse Trendelenberg’s position exactly at 45 degrees that is for the

short periods”(Gulanic & Myers,2014). From this example, if the patient the nurse is

working on is not obese then such intervention should not be indicated in the plan of care.

It is always very important for a nurse to learn early enough on how to make the

interventions that are specific to their patients. Every interventions has got a scientific

explanation for why the measure that is carried out is important.

iv. Implementation

This is the step that involves carrying out the identified interventions that were

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Name: Reg no. Submitted to: Date: The application of the nursing process to a patient scenario The nursing process is a system that can be used to organize and deliver the nursing care. The process contains five steps which include; assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation. The overview of these steps is shown below. i. Assessment Assessment involves the systematic collection of information. It is the first step in the nursing process where the nurse is also supposed to write a care plan. The assessment stage is helpful to the nurse because it helps him/her to know more about the condition of the patient. The day before the clinical the nurse is also supposed to draft a care plan based on the information gathered from the patient’s records. This draft is supposed to show more information about the patient including his/her history, any current medications, the purpose of coming to the hospital and the current health condition. This is an important step because it gives the nurse all the necessary information about the patient such that he/she can still proceed with the care plan even if the patient is away. ii. Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis is involves clinical judgment about the actual problem that the patient is facing. The nurse can thereafter use their own assessment to know the most appropriate care that the patient is supposed to be given. All nurses need to follow the rules set by The North American Nursing Diagnoses Association(NANDA). ...
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