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Nursing Management - Nursing Process
NURSING PROCESS
Toward the end of the last century,
nursing care was limited to physician orders. Nurses today are directing
patient care more in an autonomous fashion and are being held responsible and
accountable for providing appropriate care complying with the standards for the
nursing practice.
The change in attitude, the cultural diversity, the accountability
for rendering
care to the patient reside in the development of the Nursing Process.
The nursing process is a problem solving method.
The nursing process is an organized sequence of steps that the
nurses use to solve the health problems of patients. The patients receive
quality care with a minimum of time and at a maximum of efficiency.
The goal is to
maintain the patient at their highest level practicable of functioning.
When a patient enters the health care system, the nurse, using the steps of the
nursing process, collects data, identifies problems/needs (nursing diagnosis),
establishes goals, and identifies outcomes and goals by determining whether or
not the problems have been resolved. If some identifies problems remain
unresolved at the time of discharge, plans must be made for further assessment,
additional problems identification, alteration of the outcome and goals and/or
changes of interventions in the home care setting.
The nursing process caries the goal with the Care Plan if the services are
rendered within the Hospital premises. The Plan of Care is rendered in the
patient home.
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