Advantages of Using Nursing Process

There are many Advantages of Using Nursing Process

• The nursing process provides an organizing framework for meeting the individual needs of the client, the client’s family/significant other(s), and the community.
• The steps of the nursing process focus the nurse’s attention on the “individual” human responses of a client/group to a given health situation, resulting in a holistic plan of care addressing the specific needs of the client/group.
• The nursing process provides an organized, systematic method of problem-solving (while still allowing for creative solutions) that may minimize dangerous errors or omissions in caregiving and avoid time-consuming repetition in care and documentation.
• The use of the nursing process promotes the active involvement of clients in their healthcare, enhancing consumer satisfaction. Such participation increases clients’ sense of control over what is happening to them, stimulates problem-solving, and promotes personal responsibility, all of which strengthen the client’s commitment to achieving the identified goals.
• The use of the nursing process enables you as a nurse to have more control over your practice. This enhances the opportunity for you to use your knowledge, expertise, and intuition constructively and dynamically to increase the likelihood of a successful client outcome. This, in turn, promotes greater job satisfaction and your professional growth.
• The use of the nursing process provides a common language (nursing diagnosis) for practice, unifying the nursing profession. Using a system that clearly communicates the plan of care to coworkers and clients enhances continuity of care, promotes achievement of client goals, provides a vehicle for evaluation, and aids in the development of nursing standards. In addition, the structure of the process provides a format for documenting the client’s response to all aspects of the planned care.
• The use of the nursing process provides a means of assessing nursing’s economic contribution to client care. The nursing process supplies a vehicle for the quantitative and qualitative measurement of nursing care that meets the goal of cost-effectiveness and still promotes holistic care.

Advantages of Using Nursing Process