Basic Nursing chapter 8

The professional Nurses approach to identifying, diagnosing, and treating human responses to health and illness (aka. the nurses' scientific method)

• Assess
•       evaluates the patients condition
• Diagnose
•       Identifys the patients problems
•             contains a (R/T)
• Plan
•       sets goals of care and and desired outcomes,
•            contains a "Pstient will"
• Implementation 
•       Preform the nusring ations identified in planning.
•             Contains a I, " the nurse will"
• Evaluate
•       Determinsr if the goals are met and outcomes achieved.

Subjective: Patients verbal description of their health problems.

Objective: Observations or measures of a patients health status.

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