NURSING

PROCESS
The nursing process is defined as a systematic,
rational method of planning that guides all
nursing actions in delivering holistic and
patient-focused care. The nursing process is a
form of scientific reasoning and requires the
nurse's critical thinking to provide the best care
possible to the client.
7 Characteristics of Nursing Process

• Cyclic
• Dynamic nature
• Client centeredness
• Focus on problem solving and decision
making
• Interpersonal and collaborative style
• Universal applicability
• Use of critical thinking and clinical
reasoning.
The nursing process is a systematic problem-
solving approach used to identify, prevent and
treat actual or potential health problems and
promote wellness.
For example, a nurse's assessment of a hospitalized
patient in pain includes not only the physical causes
and manifestations of pain, but the patient's response
—an inability to get out of bed, refusal to eat,
withdrawal from family members, anger directed at
hospital staff, fear, or request for more pain
mediation.
Diagnosis. This phase in the nursing process is one of
the most important. We must consider all external
factors of the patient (environmental, socioeconomic,
and physiological etc.) when developing a diagnosis,
which can be challenging at times.
WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF NURSING PROCESS?

Helps to establish priorities of nursing actions for

providing proper services to the patients. Helps to
develop planned organized and individualised nursing
care. Helps to encourage for innovative nursing care.
Helps to provide for alternative nursing actions.
Findings: The extension of health care provided
was greater in nurses who used the nursing
process. Patients assigned to these nurses have
better control of their chronic diseases and incur
lower drug costs. Conclusions: The use of the
nursing process can lead to improved health of
populations.