Within the Discussion Board area, write 250 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. You are required to use 1 scholarly resource in addition to your textbook. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
The nursing process is commonly used to manage change or to problem solve.
- Using the nursing process, apply the steps of the nursing process (assessment, analysis and diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation) to describe your change topic to your peers.
- You are required to use 1 scholarly resource in addition to your textbook.
The steps of the nursing process are helpful in all aspects of the nursing profession. In the beginning, we learn the nursing process which includes assessment, analysis and diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation in relation to a patient and the development of care plans (Jarvis, 2020). However, the nursing process can actually be used to implement a change in a healthcare facility. We can access the facility and gather information about what is going on that may require a change. We then analyze all of this information we have gathered in the assessment phase and come up with a hypothesis or a diagnosis. Once we have arrived at this diagnosis or what we think the problem is from gathering the information in the assessment phase, then we are going to start planning. The planning phase is going to be our desired outcomes, what do we hope to achieve, what are our goals? Then we are going to implement interventions in hopes that we achieve our goals and resolve the problem that we have a identified. The very last step would be to evaluate our process and determine if we did in fact resolve or improve the problem or was our change successful. As a reminder, we could have a great plan in place however we did not meet our objectives or outcomes. This does not mean it was a complete failure, we just need to re-evaluate our process and see what we need to change to make our process successful. We can learn lessons from failed attempts as well. I look forward to your discussion!
