One of the mental health nurse's roles in caring for a psychiatric client is maintaining a therapeutic environment (milieu). This would be categorized in which step of the nursing process?
A) Planning
B) Nursing diagnosis
C) Implementation
D) Evaluation
Ans: C
During implementation, the nurse uses various skills to put a plan of care into action, such as maintaining the therapeutic environment. Planning involves a plan of care that individualizes and identifies priorities of care and proposed effective interventions. Nursing diagnosis is a statement of an existing problem or a potential health problem that a nurse is both competent and licensed to treat. Evaluation focuses on the client's status, progress toward goal achievement, and ongoing reevaluation of the care plan.
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