The Importance Of Nursing Process In Nursing

Nursing Process In order to accomplish some goal or purpose in the health care arena by the Register Nurse (RN) the American Nursing Association published in 1973 The Standards of Practice that after many years going thru revision is developed in to the nursing process that have five steps that include Assessment, Diagnosis, outcome identification and planning as well as Evaluation. (Doenges, Moorhouse, & Murr, 2013) For the purpose of this week this discussion the learner will develop a individualized plan of care using the five nursing process for a confused 86 year old patient who was admitted after falling at home and has a right hip fracture that will be repaired.

Assessment: The goal of the assessment is to gather as much information

They must be measurable, have a time limit, and be realistic. (Doenges, Moorhouse, & Murr, 2013). Once goals and expected outcomes have been established, nursing interventions are planned that enable the client to reach the goals for patient in question the desire outcome will that he will reports pain control to a level less than 2, on rating scale 0 to l0 after 4 hour of pain medication given, the pulse will be less 80 and blood pressure 140/90. Acute pain causes heart rate, blood pressure and temperature to increases by measuring these signs associated discomfort outcome identification and planning can be realistic measurer (Doenges, Moorhouse, & Murr,

It consists of performing nursing activities that have been planned to meet the goals set with the client (Doenges, Moorhouse, & Murr, 2013). This part of the nursing process can be attain by using modify strategies such as light off with some soft music, administering prescribe pain medication as needed, have client to use pain relief measures and continue to evaluate the patient response to the medication and decreased pain every two hours (Doenges, Moorhouse, & Murr, 2013). The reason for these interventions is to modify the pain that the client is experiencing and reduce the discomfort with the pain medication. The continue assessment will give the RN the basis for future management and early identification of pain and adverse reaction of medication and corrective measures if deemed