Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(Pengkajian Keperawatan)
Yulius Tiranda, S.Kep., Ns., M.Kep., Ph.D
Program Studi Ilmu Keperawatan, Fakultas Ilmu Kesehatan
IKesT Muhammadiyah Palembang
Contents:
01 Introduction
Definition
Purpose
Characteristics
03 Assessment
Collecting Data; Types of Data; Sources
of Data; Methods of Data Collection;
Validating Data; Documenting Data
INTRODUCTION
Definition; Purpose; Characteristics
Definition:
The nursing process is defined as a systematic, rational
method of planning that guides all nursing actions in
delivering holistic and patient-focused care (Hall,
1955; Johnson, 1959; Orlando, 1961, Wildenbach,
1963).
The nursing process is a form of scientific reasoning
and requires the nurse’s critical thinking to provide the
best care possible to the client
It involves gathering and analysing data in order to identify
patients’ strengths and potential or actual health problems, and it is
a continuous process of reviewing plans and interventions to
achieve mutually agreed upon outcomes.
The nursing process is grounded in a problem-solving cycle,
which usually includes, collecting information and assessing
the patient, planning the care and defining the relevant
objectives for nursing care, implementing actual
interventions, and evaluating the care
(Habermann & Uys 2005).
Purpose:
To identify the client’s health status and actual or potential health care
problems or needs (through assessment).
To establish plans to meet the identified needs.
To deliver specific nursing interventions to meet those needs.
To apply the best available caregiving evidence and promote human
functions and responses to health and illness (ANA, 2010).
To protect nurses against legal problems related to nursing care when
the standards of the nursing process are followed correctly.
To help the nurse perform in a systematically organized way their
practice.
To establish a database about the client’s health status, health
concerns, response to illness, and the ability to manage health care
needs.
Characteristics of Nursing Process
and evaluation.
“Nursing Process”
You perform assessment to gather information needed to make an accurate judgment about a
patient’s current condition (Magnan and Maklebust, 2009).
Your information comes from:
The patient, through interview, observations, and physical examination.
Family members or significant others’ reports and response to interviews.
Other members of the health care team.
Medical record information (e.g., patient history, laboratory work, x-ray film results,
multidisciplinary consultations).
Scientific literature (evidence about assessment techniques and standards).
Types of Data
Data collected about a client generally falls into objective or subjective
categories, but data can also be verbal and nonverbal.
Subjective Data or Symptoms Verbal Data
Subjective data involve covert information, such as feelings, Verbal data are spoken or written data such as statements made by
perceptions, thoughts, sensations, or concerns that are shared by the client or by a secondary source. Verbal data requires the
the patient and can be verified only by the patient, such as nausea, listening skills of the nurse to assess difficulties such as slurring,
pain, numbness, pruritus, attitudes, beliefs, values, and tone of voice, assertiveness, anxiety, difficulty in finding the desired
perceptions of the health concern and life events. word, and flight of ideas.
Primary Source
The client is the only primary source of data and the only one who can provide subjective data. Anything the client says or
reports to the members of the healthcare team is considered primary.
Secondary Source
A source is considered secondary data if it is provided from someone else other than the client but within the client’s frame
of reference. Information provided by the client’s family or significant others are considered secondary sources of data if
the client cannot speak for themselves, is lacking facts and understanding, or is a child. Additionally, the client’s records
and assessment data from other nurses or other members of the healthcare team are considered secondary sources of data.
Tertiary Source
Sources from outside the client’s frame of reference are considered tertiary sources of data. Examples of tertiary data
include information from textbooks, medical and nursing journals, drug handbooks, surveys, and policy and procedural
manuals.
Methods of Data Collection
The main methods used to collect data are health interviews, physical examination, and observation.
Health Interview
The most common approach to gathering important
information is through an interview. An interview is an
intended communication or a conversation with a purpose,
for example, to obtain or provide information, identify
problems of mutual concern, evaluate change, teach,
provide support, or provide counseling or therapy. One
example of the interview is the nursing health history,
which is a part of the nursing admission assessment.
Patient interaction is generally the heaviest during the
assessment phase of the nursing process so rapport must
be established during this step.
Physical Examination
Aside from conducting interviews, nurses will
perform physical examinations, referencing a
patient’s health history, obtaining a patient’s
family history, and general observation can also be
used to gather assessment data. Establishing a
good physical assessment would, later on, provide
a more accurate diagnosis, planning, and better
interventions and evaluation.
Observation
Observation is an assessment tool that depends on
the use of the five senses (sight, touch, hearing,
smell, and taste) to learn information about the
client. This information relates to characteristics of
the client’s appearance, functioning, primary
relationships, and environment. Although nurses
observe mainly through sight, most of the senses
are engaged during careful observations such as
smelling foul odors, hearing or auscultating lung
and heart sounds and feeling the pulse rate and
other palpable skin deformations.
Validating Data
Validation is the process of verifying the data to ensure that it is accurate and factual. One way to validate
observations is through “double-checking,” and it allows the nurse to complete the following tasks:
1. Ensures that assessment information is double-checked, verified, and complete.
For example, during routine assessment, the nurse obtains a reading of 210/96 mm Hg of a client
with no history of hypertension. To validate the data, the nurse should retake the blood pressure and
if necessary, use another equipment to confirm the measurement or ask someone else to perform the
assessment.
2. Ensure that objective and related subjective data are valid and accurate.
For example, the client’s perceptions of “feeling hot” need to be compared with the measurement of
the body temperature.
3. Ensure that the nurse does not come to a conclusion without adequate data to support the
conclusion.
A nurse assumes tiny purple or bluish-black swollen areas under the tongue of an older adult client
to be abnormal until reading about physical changes of aging.
4. Ensure that any ambiguous or vague statements are clarified.
For example, a 86-year-old female client who is not a native English speaker says that “I am in
pain on and off for 4 weeks,” would require verification for clarity from the nurse by asking “Can
you describe what your pain is like? What do you mean by on and off?”
Once all the information has been collected, data can be recorded and sorted.
Excellent record- keeping is fundamental so that all the data gathered is
documented and explained in a way that is accessible to the whole health care
team and can be referenced during evaluation.
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