Muaa, Diana Marie B.

April 20, 2015

NUR141 Ms. Mirasol Uy

Nursing Process

Nursing Process is a systematic, rational method of planning and providing

individualized nursing care. Its purpose is to identify a clients health status and actual or
potential health care problems or needs, to establish plans to meet the identified needs, and to
deliver specific nursing interventions to meet those needs.
(Fundamentals of Nursing by Kozier and Erb)

Which means that Nursing Process is a plan used by nurses to obtain a particular result by
analyzing each clients specific health status to identify and meet their needs. And most
specially it should be systematic, rational hence, Nursing Process involves a process or series
of organized steps that is used for identifying problems and implementing plans made,
effectively. Of course, it should be rational because this certain process is not based on
unreasonable opinions of nurses but rather on reasoning based on empirical evidence and
knowledge of nurses.

Nursing Process, as Ive said, follows a series of organized steps, these are:
a. Assessing
b. Diagnosing
c. Planning
d. Implementing
e. Evaluating

Assessing involves collection, organization, validation and documentation of data from the
client. This is where nurses identify the basic information (e.g. vital sign, health history) of the
client. Nurses also identify the signs that can be directly observed by the nurses themselves and
symptoms that are experiences or felt by the clients. After doing these, as a major step in
assessment, the nurses should record all the data collected

Diagnosing is the analyzation of the assessment data to identify the ability and problem of a
particular client.

Planning is the phase that involves problem solving and critical thinking of nurses to form a
specific plan to reach a particular goal that pertains to the betterment of the client. It is the stage
wherein the nurse creates a plan that will eliminate or lessen the problem of the client identified
through the diagnosing phase.

Implementing is the stage of applying the plan intervention from the previous step. It is the
process of carrying out what is written in the plan to attain the goal outcome.
Evaluating is the last phase or stage in the process wherein the nurse analyzes if the goal is
attained or not, through the plan used. It is where the nurse identifies if the plan should be
continued, terminated, or modified based on the result or outcome of the plan.