The nursing process: a time to remember its purpose

We have a problem. Somehow, along the way, we lost track of what the nursing process is supposed to represent. Organizations produce documentation (often lots of paper or many computer screens of data) incorporating nursing assessment, diagnoses/patient problems, interventions and outcomes which me...

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Main Author: T. Heather Herdman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará 2013-06-01
Series:Rev Rene
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/3412
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