Question

How to apply ADPIE to patient care? In detail.

Answer 1

Applying 'ADPIE 'to patient care

An acronym used to describe five phases of nursing care,which to become proffessional and effective in care.

• Assessment

This method is used to identify the physiological,psychological and emotional state of a patient.This can be obtained by interviewing and taking the vital signs.This will reveal the Health problems and can move to the next phase.

• Diagnosis

From the information gathered from assesment we will make a diagnosis,which means from the symptoms we will get the causes or problems.This diagnosis is not a specific disease, but can assume the disease or cause will be a particular problem.

• Planning

Once we diagnosis there will be a planning for the traetment and outcome of the treatment.The Planning steps include the interventions and final recovery of the patient.

• Implementation

when we are applying what we planned for the particular patient /disease.The patient follows the plan for a recovery.The nurse will ensure the treatment is in a proper way.If not replan the treatment.

• Evaluation

Once the treatment completed,we have to evaluate the patient and identify whether it worked as expected.

Identify any problems or deviations that can be corrected .

Generally we can say that the five phases are for the benefit of patients, that the nurse can do at the time of admission.