The nursing process is a systematic, problem-solving approach essential to nursing care, allowing for individualized treatment based on critical thinking and evidence. It involves five key components: assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The process is characterized by its cyclic and dynamic nature, client-centered focus, and emphasis on collaboration and critical reasoning.

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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:
1. Assess the patient to determine the need for nursing care;
2. Determine nursing diagnoses for actual and potential health
problems;
3. Identify expected outcomes and plan care;
4. Implement the care; and
5. Evaluate the results.

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

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6. Purposes of nursing process
 Toidentify a client’s health status and actual or
potential health care problems or needs.
 Toestablish plans to meet the identified needs.
 Todeliver specific nursing interventions to meet those
needs.

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.