Nursing process. Description. Stages

The nursing process is a way of organizing the activity of a medical brother or nurse, applicable to any area of the employee's activity. This method can be used in different health care institutions.

The nursing process in therapy aims to ensure an adequate quality of life in the course of the illness by providing the patient with comfort, both psychosocial, and spiritual and physical, in accordance with his spiritual values and culture.

This method of organizing the health worker has several advantages. First of all, the nursing process is individual. It also has a certain degree of systemicity, efficiency with the use of resources and time. This method is universal, within its framework it is possible to widely apply standards of activity that have a scientific basis. It is also important that when planning and implementing care, the interaction between the patient's family and employees of the medical facility takes place.

Stages of the nursing process

1. Examination.
2. Definition of problems (diagnostics).
3. Care planning.
4. Carry out the care in accordance with the plan.
5. Correction (if necessary) of care, evaluation of effectiveness.

The nursing process provides for maximum patient comfort. This is an essential factor contributing to the preservation of health and the alleviation of a person's condition.

Care of the patient is considered qualified if it meets the necessary requirements: individuality, systemic, scientific.

In the process of planning and carrying out care for the patient, it is important not only to find out the causes of various disorders, but also to investigate the external manifestations of the pathology, which are the result of a deep disorganization of the organism and one of the main causes of discomfort.

Before you start the diagnosis, you need to collect the necessary information about the patient. In the first stage, the duties of a nurse also include collecting information such as passport data, a medical history, a doctor's diagnosis, a description of the pain, its nature, duration, intensity, and so on.

After systematization of the information, diagnostics is carried out. To date, the concept of nursing diagnosis is understood as identifying a specific list of patient problems. This list includes stress, pain, hyperthermia, anxiety, self-hygiene, hypodynamia and so on.

After the establishment of the "sister diagnosis", care planning is carried out. The medical officer formulates the goals and objectives of care, assumes the expected timing and results. At this stage, the nursing process also includes the formulation of techniques, methods, methods, actions through which the planned goals and objectives are achieved.

Care planning requires a clear scheme, according to which conditions that in one way or another complicate the disease will be eliminated. If there is a plan, the work of the staff is clearly organized and coordinated.