9 Rights of Medication Administration
Errors around drug administration are the most common types of medication errors in many health care settings. They may at times lead to permanent disability and fatalities in patients. The Rights of Medication Administration Tool is a set of steps that helps the health care worker to administer patients’ medications the right way. The nine […]
The Nursing Process (ADPIE)
The Nursing Process is described as the deliberate approach to meeting people’s health care and nursing needs. This approach was introduced in 1958 by Ida Jean Orlando, adopting the scientific methods of observing, measuring, gathering data, and analyzing findings. She restructured these methods into 5 steps which include assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation […]
History Taking
Health history is essential when it comes to nursing care. It involves obtaining subjective data directly from the patient/client or from his or her significant other. Relevant questions are asked by the nurse and responses are delivered by the patient. It is carried out in a sequential manner starting with the demographic data of the […]
Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns: A Nursing Guide
In 1987, Marjory Gordon developed the 11 set of Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns to be used in the Nursing Process by nurses to ensure that a more comprehensive nursing assessment is done of the patients. In each pattern, nurses ask questions to obtain more details that perhaps the patient may not have provided during the […]