After implementing interventions and reassessing the client's response, the nurse completes the process by evaluating. What attributes of evaluation should the nurse include when completing this step of the nursing process?
1. Purposeful activity
2. Nursing accountability
3. Continuous
4. Judgments
5. Opinion
Correct Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4
Rationale 1: Evaluating is a planned, ongoing, purposeful activity in which clients and health care professionals determine the client's progress toward achievement of goals/outcomes and the effectiveness of the nursing care plan.
Rationale 2: Through evaluating, nurses demonstrate responsibility and accountability for their actions.
Rationale 3: Evaluation is continuous and done while or immediately after implementing a nursing order.
Rationale 4: To evaluate is to judge or appraise. Through evaluation, the nurse is able to establish whether nursing interventions should be terminated, continued, or changed.
Rationale 5: Evaluation does not rest on opinion.
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