Abstract
THE nursing process is a scientific method of approaching and planning the nursing care of the patient. It is an ongoing process and has a different meaning for each patient at different stages of his illness. It also varies from one nurse to another and at different levels of a nurse’s professional maturity and in different nursing situations.
Highlights
TH E nursing process is a scientific method of approaching and plan ning the nursing care of the patient
An orderly, systematic m anner o f determ ining the clien t’s problems, m aking plans to solve them, initidting the plan or assign ing others to im p lem en t it, a n d evaluating the extent to which the plan was effective in resolving the problem s identified.[1]
In the light o f the foregoing it is apparent that the nursing process is one of the most valuable scientific methods of effecting nursing practice
Summary
TH E nursing process is a scientific method of approaching and plan ning the nursing care of the patient. The nursing process operates whenever there is a patient and a nurse, be it in a home situation, an institutional setting or an extrainstitutional locality It attains the preventive dimension if necessary, the promotive dimension if the health of the individual needs to be improved; a curative dimension in a therapeutic context, and a rehabili tative dimension if maximum func tioning is to be restored. The nurse dis tinguishes priorities and reactions by discerning differences in prob lems and in the needs experienced by the patients / clients This am ounts to sorting out what to do fir stand what to do what is the exp ected response, what is essential, what is relevant, w hat is urgent an d what is not. Expected of him — will the patient’s tension be relieved, b ut his anxiety dispelled and the way will be paved to either a speedy recovery or to a peaceful death
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