Module 3 Nursing Process

• The nursing process is a systematic, step-by-step approach to patient care, involving assessing the patient's condition, identifying problems, planning and implementing interventions, and evaluating their effectiveness
• Planning in nursing care involves prioritizing diagnoses, setting patient-centered goals, and expected outcomes
• Priority setting in nursing care involves classifying priorities as high, intermediate, or low importance, based on urgency, safety, and the nature of treatment
• Goals in nursing care describe a desired change in a patient's condition, perceptions, or behavior, while expected outcomes are measurable changes that must be achieved to reach a goal
• Goals and expected outcomes in nursing care should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timed (SMART)
• Types of nursing interventions include independent (e.g., positioning patients), dependent (e.g., medication administration), and collaborative (e.g., consultation with other healthcare professionals)
• Outcomes in nursing care provide the desired physiological, psychological, social, developmental, or spiritual responses
• The nursing process is a systematic, step-by-step approach to patient care, involving assessing the patient's condition, identifying problems, planning and implementing interventions, and evaluating the effectiveness of those interventions

  
• Nursing interventions classification (NIC) aims to expand nursing knowledge about connections among nursing diagnoses, treatments, and outcomes
• The implementation of nursing skills requires additional knowledge, nursing skills, and personnel resources
• Evaluation in nursing is the final step of the nursing process, where expected outcomes established during planning are the standards to determine if goals have been met
• Evaluative measures in nursing are assessment skills used to collect data for determining if outcomes are met, and documenting evaluative findings allows all members of the healthcare team to know the patient's progress