- Title
- Diagnosing
- Creator
- Levett-Jones, Tracy; Fagan, Anthea
- Relation
- Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing p. 233-245
- Publisher
- Pearson
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Diagnosing is the second phase of the nursing process and the fourth stage of the clinical reasoning cycle. Nurses use critical-thinking skills to process the clinical data they collect in order to identify the person's problem/s and formulate specific, clear and individualised nursing diagnoses. At all times the nurse adopts a person-centred approach and works in partnership with the person who is experiencing ill health; this ensures that the person's goals and needs remain central to the nursing process. Diagnosing is a pivotal step as care planning and nursing interventions follow directly from this phase. Safe and effective health care depends upon an accurate nursing diagnoses.
- Description
- 3rd Australian ed.
- Subject
- clinical reasoning; data analysis; critical thinking; nursing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1320013
- Identifier
- uon:24036
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781486010394
- Language
- eng
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