The nurse preceptor asked a new graduate nurse to explain the primary difference between the nursing process and the problem-solving and decision-making processes? The new graduate would be correct in stating that:
a. the nursing process works only for nurses.
b. the problem-solving and decision-making processes require group decision making.
c. the nursing process applies to patient situations or problems.
d. the problem-solving and decision-making processes apply to all other problems exceptpatient-centered ones.
C
While the nursing process does include aspects of problem solving and decision making, the process
consists of assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation,
and it is applied to patient care situations or problems (not all types of problems). Decision making
and problem solving, on the other hand, are processes that can be applied to all types of problems.
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