Welcome Introductions• Your name• Where do you work now• 1 Thing (pick one)

• You’d like to get out of this class• Something the class should know about

you

Health & Physical Assessment in Nursing

First Edition

Chapter 1

The Care Cycle

Donita D’Amicoand

Colleen Barbarito

Figure 1.6 Nursing process.

Steps of the Care Cycle:•Assessment•Diagnosis•Planning•Implementation•Evaluation

Assessment

The collection, organization and validation of subjective (concluded) and objective (based in fact) data

Diagnosis

Use of Critical Thinking and Application of Knowledge from the Sciences and Other Disciplines to Analyze and Synthesize Data

Planning

Priority Setting, Stating Client Goals or Outcomes, and Selecting Nursing Interventions

Implementation

Putting your Interventions into Action

Evaluation

Comparing the Client Status to the Stated Goals or Outcomes

Critical Thinking

A Purposeful and Creative Approach to Resolution of Problems and Management of Situations

Figure 1.7 Elements of critical thinking.

Critical Thinking Is…

• Data Collection• Analysis of the

Situation• Generation and

Selection of Alternatives

• Evaluation

Data Collection• Identifying assumptions• Organizing data

collection• Determining reliability

of data• Identifying relevant

versus irrelevant data• Identifying

inconsistencies in data

Analysis of the Situation• Distinguishing data

as normal or abnormal

• Clustering related data

• Identifying patterns in data

• Identifying missing information

• Drawing valid conclusions

Generation and Selection of Alternatives• Articulating

options• Establishing

priorities

Generation and Selection of Alternatives• Articulating

options• Establishing

priorities

Evaluation• Determining

whether the expected outcomes have been achieved

Critical ThinkingEnables the Healthcare

Worker to Make Judgments About Client Care Based on Careful Collection and Interpretation of Client Data