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The student must

be able to

1. Identify the patient’s disturbed needs;

2. Identify priority, existing, and potential problems of the patient;

3. Formulate the goals of nursing interventions;

4. Create an intervention plan based on the categories (dependent, independent,

and interdependent);

5. Evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention.

Content of the training material

The nursing process is a scientific systematic method of organizing and practi-

cal implementation by a nurse of their professional duties to help the patient and

his family

, it is a way of thinking and acting in relation to people, the environment,

and health, according to the basic concepts of nursing.

The nursing process is aimed to:

• strengthening and preserving the health of the patient, family, society and

prevention of diseases;

• ensuring the maximum possible psychological and physical comfort for the

patient;

• restoring and maintaining the patient’s independence in fulfilling the basic

needs of the body or a quiet death.

Goals of the nursing process:

• determining the needs of the patient and his family for care;

• definition of priorities, expected outcomes (determination of goals of care);

• predicting the possible consequences of nurse actions and those of other par-

ticipants in the treatment process, members of the medical team;

• evaluation of the effectiveness of nursing care results.

The nursing process consists of five stages:

1) nursing examination of the patient-collection of information about the pa-

tient’s health status, his family (formation of a «Bank» of information);

2) making a nursing diagnosis, identifying the needs and describing the prob-

lems of the patient and his family that are associated with the disease;

3) planning the actions of a nurse with an indication of the time frame for

achieving the planned goals and results;

4) realization a care plan;

5) evaluation of results – determining the effectiveness or inefficiency of care,

the causes of errors and complications.

At all stages of the nursing process, the necessary conditions for its implemen-

tation are:

• professional competence of the nurse, skills of observation, communication,

analysis and interpretation of the received data;

• trusting environment, sufficient time;