Question

How important is the nursing process, how nurse use critical skills and judgement when presented in a situation

Answer 1

NURSING PROCESS

It is a systematic assessment,palnning,implimentation and evaluation of a set of nursing care to the person in need.It have 5 main steps such as,

1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implimentation
5. Evaluation

Importantce of nursing process

• It helps the nurse to peovide a systematic way of nusing care
• It improve the decision making ability of the nurse in a crisis situation.
• It help the patient to meet the desired needs.
• To provide the quality of nursing care
• Maintain the standard of nursing profession
• Identify the health status of the purticular patient
• It also helps to know the outcome of the interventions.The evaluation list can be two types,

1. Negative outcome - Interventions should be changed or modified
2. Positive outcome - Goal met

• It improves the confidence of nurse to provide the nursing care
• It help in professional growth
• It give a job satisfaction to the nurses
• It helps to minimize the medical errors
• It improve the nursing skill of the trained nurses
• It facilitites the documentation of care
• It helps the nurse to provide the continuity of nursing care
• It helps to promote and restore the health of the person.
• It is very important to reduce the risk of complications
• It is an important tool to maintain a good therapeutic communication.
• It act as a problem solving method
• Ithelp the nurse to concentrate on each and every problem of the patient based on the priority.
• It make the patient to feel the concern of the nurse towards the patient

Critical thinking and judgement

It is very important for a nurse to use the ability of critical thinking and judgement by applying the knowledge and experience in many situations such as,

• Crisis situation
• During the identication of the problems
• While planning the nursing interventions or actions which should be relevant to the problems identified.
• Putting the plan into action
• And during the evaluation process.