The nurse teaches a student nurse about how to apply the nursing process when providing patient care. Which statement, if made by the student nurse, indicates that teaching was successful?
a. "The nursing process is a scientific-based method of diagnosing the patient's health care problems."
b. "The nursing process is a problem-solving tool used to identify and treat patients' health care needs."
c. "The nursing process is based on nursing theory that incorporates the biopsychosocial nature of humans."
d. "The nursing process is used primarily to explain nursing interventions to other health care professionals."
ANS: B
The nursing process is a problem-solving approach to the identification and treatment of patients' problems. Diagnosis is only one phase of the nursing process. The primary use of the nursing process is in patient care, not to establish nursing theory or explain nursing interventions to other health care professionals.
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