Nursing Assessment: The Six Steps Of The Nursing Process

In this outcome I was able to demonstrate clinical judgment utilizing the six steps of the nursing process. The nursing process is a systematic method of assessing, diagnosing, planning, delivering and evaluating individualized care for patients in any state of health or illness. Based on the scientific problem-solving method, it constitutes for the foundation for the nursing practice (Baraki, Girmay, Kidanu, Gerensea, Gezehgne, & Teklay, 2017). The nursing process is a method used by the nurse professional to administer quality patient care. During the first step of assessing, patient information is collected using subjective data, which is all the information given to the nurse by the patient or the care giver and the objective data which the nurse can observe or perform by taking vital signs, auscultating heart and bowel sounds, looking and touching skin. One example of assessment would be learning to master a complete head-to-toe full body assessment while taking NURS 305. Understanding how to complete an assessment is a key step in identifying the patients’ needs and delivery of care. During the end of NURS 305, each student had to assess a classmate and go through each of the steps of an assessment. This was a great experience, because I performed a head to toe assessment on a classmate and we received feedback from the instructor on what we needed to improve or correct. The second step in the nursing process consist of the nurse using critical thinking to