Nursing process
ADPIE
Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation
The five steps of the nursing process, and the framework that organizes most of what a nursing program teaches after the first semester.
What each letter stands for
- 1 Assessment — gather data.
- 2 Diagnosis — state the problem in nursing terms.
- 3 Planning — set goals and choose interventions.
- 4 Implementation — carry them out.
- 5 Evaluation — did it work?
How it gets tested
Ordering items are the norm, and the reliable rule is that assessment comes before action. When an option offers to do something and another offers to check something, the check almost always wins.
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