Application of the Nursing Process
Part 1 Nursing process is a systematic, organised, and holistic patient-centred approach in delivering care to patients. The nursing process has five steps that include assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The second step in the nursing process is diagnosis. In this step, registered nurses make clinical judgments based on data gathered in the assessment step about the client’s health problem and the potential health problem of the client. Nurses also make judgements on the ability of the clients to adopt practices that can improve their health. For instance, the assessment of the old man in the ...
