The Nursing Process

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  • Nursing Process
    • 3.Plan
      • What do you need to do? Make the care plan
      • Involve patient (and parents) in decision making
      • Plan nursing interventions to solve problems and achieve outcomes
      • Demonstrates you have used ‘best practice’
      • Providescommunication between proffesionals
      • Provides evidence in legal cases
    • 4.Implementation
      • Carry out the care
      • Do you need to consider play therapy, distractions and parents involvement?
      • Must be within the practice of ‘compassion in practice’ (DH 2018)
    • 1. Assessment
      • What are you starting with?
        • Information gathering
          • Objective - measurable
          • Observed information
          • Subjective
            • From patients as they talk about their perspectives and feelings
            • Have to be objective with subjective information
            • Families are not as reliable as the patient
          • Can repeat information - clarification
          • Clinical information (history and background)
        • Holistic
          • This considers every aspect of the individual
          • Physical
            • What can the patient do?
              • Communicating
              • Breathing
              • Mobilising
              • Eating and drinkiing
              • Washing and dressing
              • Eliminating
            • Maintaining a safe enviroment
            • Maintaining thermoregulation
            • Expressing Sexuality
              • Genetic makeup, Gender, age
          • Psychological
            • Interllect - age and level of understanding
            • Attitudes - how are they feeling
            • Effect of illness - stress, fear, memories
            • Thoughts and  feelings
            • Thinking patterns - negative, unrealistic, irrational
              • How does this effect their decision making
            • Infants, children and young people can be uncooperativeas they are scared
          • Emotional
            • Relationships
            • Interactions with parents and carers
            • Self-esteem
            • Body image
            • Self awareness
            • Stress
            • Are they having appropriate emotions?
            • Management of emotiions
          • Social
            • Parents/family/friends
            • Networks
              • Work
              • Social Activities
              • Social networks
            • Community activity?
          • Spiritual/Religious
            • Belief system
              • Meaning of life
              • Death
            • What do they value
            • Organised religion?
          • Cultural
            • Beliefs
            • Morale values
            • Tradditions
            • Language
            • Rules of behaviour
            • Dietary practices
      • Under 18’s
        • Responses differ depending on age and development
        • May display different psychologicalresponses
        • May not tell you everything or give misleading information
        • Depended to on parents or carers
      • What makes a good assessment?
        • Gain consent
        • Good communication
        • Systematic data collection
        • Aesthetics
          • Empathy and sensitivity
        • Ethics
        • Self awareness of YOUR impact on patient care
      • Sources of data
        • Non-Verbal
          • Sight
            • Physical
            • Psychological
            • Social
          • Touch
            • Skin temp
            • Hydration
            • Pulse
            • BP
          • Sound
            • Breath
            • Wheeze
            • Stridor
            • Moaning/Crying
          • Smell
            • Breath
            • Body fluids
            • Infections
            • Personal hygine
            • Alcohol and Drugs
          • Interactions with parents/toys
        • Verbal Communication
          • What they say to the medical team
          • What family members say
        • Why is communication so important?
          • Establish and maintain a relationship with patients, parents and families
          • Encourage patients to describe all relevant aspects of their problems
          • To get and give accurate information
          • To improve trust and cooperation
          • Reduce negative emotions and fear
        • Written Records
          • Information that you might need that they cannot communicate - especially LD & MH
          • Passport for patient with LD
            • Things you need to know about me
            • Things that are important to me
            • My likes and dislikes
            • Doesn’t just have to be LD but also people with dementia for example or severe MH needs
          • GP Letter
          • Transfer letter
          • Previous hospital notes
          • Safeguarding notifications
    • 5.Elvaluation
      • How did it go?
      • Systamatic
      • Patient/family centered
      • Measures improvement against identifies outcomes
      • Establishes whether the nursing interventions were effective
      • Individual and holistic
      • Cyclical and on going throughout the implemention of care
      • Identifies if any further intervention is required
      • Records care
    • A systematic way of problem solving integrating assessment information with decisions about care and then evaluating the outcomes of the care provided. (Howatson- Jones et al 2012)
    • What is it? Why do we use this process?
      • Foundation of practice
      • Framework for problem solving
      • A way of organising nurses’ critical thinking skills
      • Flexible tool - to achieve patient centred care
    • Why is it so successful?
      • Systematic
      • Patient/FamilyCantered
        • Involves joint decision making between staff and patient
      • Outcome orientated
        • Each of the stages depends on how well the stage before was done
      • Holistic
      • Cyclical and on going
        • Even when discharged get transferred to the GP
    • 2. Nursing Diagniosis
      • The new fifth element
      • What is the difference to medical Diagnosis?
        • Medical - give original diagnosis
          • Remains the same as long as the patient has the disease
        • Nursing - problems and symptoms from that original diagnosis
          • May change day to day
      • Based on data obtained through the assessment process
  • Under 18’s
    • Responses differ depending on age and development
    • May display different psychologicalresponses
    • May not tell you everything or give misleading information
    • Depended to on parents or carers

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