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NURSING PROCESS
The Cornerstone of The Nursing Profession
The nursing process generally is defined as a systematic problem- solving approach toward giving individualized nursing care.
Nursing process is a critical thinking process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to care giving and promoting human functions and responses to health and illness (American Nurses Association, 2010).
Nursing process is a systematic method of providing care to clients.
The nursing process is a systematic method of planning and providing individualized nursing care.



The nursing process is a systematic method that directs the nurse and patient as together they accomplish the following:
Assess the patient to determine the need for nursing care;
Determine nursing diagnoses for actual and potential health problems;
Identify expected outcomes and plan care;
Implement the care; and
Evaluate the results.
Components of nursing process
Assessment (data collection),
Nursing diagnosis
Planning
Implementation and
Evaluation.

Nursing
diagnosis
Purposes of nursing process
To identify a client’s health status and actual or potential health care problems or needs.
To establish plans to meet the identified needs.
To deliver specific nursing interventions to meet those needs.

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.

1. Sankappa Gulaganji Asst professor Bldea’s shri b m patil ins vijayapur Nursing Process

2. NURSING PROCESS The Cornerstone of The Nursing Profession The nursing process generally is defined as a systematic problem- solving approach toward giving individualized nursing care. Nursing process is a critical thinking process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to care giving and promoting human functions and responses to health and illness (American Nurses Association, 2010). Nursing process is a systematic method of providing care to clients. The nursing process is a systematic method of planning and providing individualized nursing care.

3. The nursing process is a systematic method that directs the nurse and patient as together they accomplish the following: Assess the patient to determine the need for nursing care; Determine nursing diagnoses for actual and potential health problems; Identify expected outcomes and plan care; I mplement the care; and E valuate the results.

4. Components of nursing process Assessment (data collection), Nursing diagnosis Planning Implementation and Evaluation.

5. Nu r sing process Assessment Nursing diagnosis P l an n i n g Implementation Evaluation

6. Purposes of nursing process To identify a client’s health status and actual or potential health care problems or needs. To establish plans to meet the identified needs. To deliver specific nursing interventions to meet those n eeds .

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.