The nurse has gathered assessment data on a client admitted for suicidal tendencies. The nurse develops appropriate nursing diagnoses and formulates goals to achieve client outcomes. The nurse is utilizing which step of the nursing process?
1. Implementation
2. Evaluation
3. Planning
4. Assessment
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Rationale 1: Implementation is the process of performing certain interventions designed to move the client toward achievement of the goal.
Rationale 2: Evaluation is the process whereby the progress toward achieving the goals is reviewed and documented.
Rationale 3: During the planning phase of the nursing process, nursing diagnoses are formulated after data have been assessed, and then goal setting takes place.
Rationale 4: Assessment is the process by which data are collected.
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