Summative Assignment: The Nursing And Essential Care Needs
Principles of Nursing Practice and Applied Health Sciences
(NPCG1017 & NCPG1016)
‘ The nursing process and essential care needs ’
Summative Assignment
SA072
Student ID: 25519662
Word count: 3294 (excluding reference list and text boxes)
Introduction
This assignment will endeavour to look at essential care needs and explore exactly what they are and why they are important. The assignment will then discuss one particular essential care need relevant for a chosen patient, explore this care need in detail, and define exactly what it is and why it is important. Finally this assignment will be looking at the chosen essential care need and exploring the nursing care required to facilitate this; This is done through the systematic technique known as the nursing process.
Essential care needs within nursing are extremely important for improving the health and wellbeing of a patient, some essential care needs are; nutrition, personal …show more content…
Pain management must be from the best evidence based research available to prevent patients suffering from harm (NMC 2008). The British pain society helps to promote education and research in all fields of pain. It also aims to increase awareness of pain and the facilities that are available for management (British pain society 2008).
This part of the assignment will include the 4 stages of the nursing process. The nursing process was introduced into nursing by Yura and Walsh (Yura&Walsh 1967), it defines 4 stages that nursing care should follow, these are: assessment, planning, implement and evaluation (Daniels 2004). This process will be applied to the essential care need of pain management, due to the chosen patient’s condition. A community nurse will be undertaking the nursing process, due to Sarah's poor mobility, and not being able to get to the
(NPCG1017 & NCPG1016)
‘ The nursing process and essential care needs ’
Summative Assignment
SA072
Student ID: 25519662
Word count: 3294 (excluding reference list and text boxes)
Introduction
This assignment will endeavour to look at essential care needs and explore exactly what they are and why they are important. The assignment will then discuss one particular essential care need relevant for a chosen patient, explore this care need in detail, and define exactly what it is and why it is important. Finally this assignment will be looking at the chosen essential care need and exploring the nursing care required to facilitate this; This is done through the systematic technique known as the nursing process.
Essential care needs within nursing are extremely important for improving the health and wellbeing of a patient, some essential care needs are; nutrition, personal …show more content…
Pain management must be from the best evidence based research available to prevent patients suffering from harm (NMC 2008). The British pain society helps to promote education and research in all fields of pain. It also aims to increase awareness of pain and the facilities that are available for management (British pain society 2008).
This part of the assignment will include the 4 stages of the nursing process. The nursing process was introduced into nursing by Yura and Walsh (Yura&Walsh 1967), it defines 4 stages that nursing care should follow, these are: assessment, planning, implement and evaluation (Daniels 2004). This process will be applied to the essential care need of pain management, due to the chosen patient’s condition. A community nurse will be undertaking the nursing process, due to Sarah's poor mobility, and not being able to get to the