After implementing interventions and reassessing the client's response, the nurse completes the process by evaluating. Evaluation includes which of the following attributes?
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 healthcare 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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