Ch.

2: Nursing Process
After completing this chapter, your students should understand the key nursing process
steps, how to effectively communicate with their patients, what a health history consists
of and how to take one, and how to perform inspection, palpation, percussion, and
auscultation.
I. A look at the nursing process
II. Assessment
A. Health history

B. Conducting the interview

C. Obtaining health history data

D. Physical assessment
1. Inspection

2. Palpation

3. Percussion

4. Auscultation

E. Diagnostic test findings

F. Analyzing the data

III. Nursing diagnosis

A. Identifying the problem

B. Writing the diagnostic statement

C. Validating each diagnosis

D. Prioritizing the diagnoses

E. Maslow’s hierarchy

IV. Planning
V. Implementation
VI. Evaluation