The Nursing Process - Unit 4 Flashcards
What is a process?
Series of steps or acts that leads to accomplishment of some goal or purpose.
What are the 3 characteristics of a process?
Inherent purpose, internal organization, infinite creativity.
Nursing Process - Systematic, rational method of..
planning and providing individualized nursing care.
Prior to nursing process, nurses provided care based on medical orders written by…
MDs.
in 1955, Lydia Hall referred to nursing as a …
“process.”
In 1967, Yura and Walsh developed a four step nursing process. T/F?
True!
in 1973, the ANA published Standards of nursing a ___ step process, that was revised in 1991.
6 step.
ANA Standards - 1
Assessment - The nurse collects client health data.
ANA Standards - 2
Diagnosis - The nurse analyzes the assessment data.
ANA Standards - 3
Outcome identification. The nurse identifies outcomes individualized to the client.
ANA Standards - 4
Planning - the nurse develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
ANA Standards - 5
Implementation - putting the plan into process.
ANA Standards - 6
Evaluation - The nurse evaluates the client’s progress toward attainment of outcomes. Did it work? etc.
What is the purpose of the nursing process?
To identify a client’s health status, actual or potential health care problems or needs, establish plans to meet the identified needs, and to deliver specific interventions to meet those needs.
Provide the basis for individualized plan of care.
What are characteristics of the nursing process?
Cyclic and dynamic, client centered, interpersonal and collaborative. Universally applicable. We can do it for anyone.
