Nursing Process: ADPIE Series

Introduction

• ADPIE is a foundational concept in nursing, often used in clinical settings.
• Consists of five key steps: Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.

Overview of the Nursing Process

• Five-Step Approach to client care:
  • Assessment
  • Diagnosis
  • Planning
  • Implementation
  • Evaluation
• Often visualized as a pie chart representing a continuous process.

Focus of Today's Lecture: Assessment

• Assessment:
  • Gathering comprehensive information about the patient's condition.
  • Methods include head-to-toe physical assessment, reviewing medical records, and interviewing the patient and their family.

Steps in the Assessment Process

1. Collect Information:
   • Primary source: the client/patient.
   • Secondary sources: family members, healthcare providers, medical records.
2. Verify Information:
   • Ensure the information collected is accurate.
3. Analyze Information:
   • Use critical thinking to interpret information and apply it to the patient's condition.

Role of Assessment in the Nursing Process

• Assessment leads to identifying priority problems through nursing diagnosis.
• Different from medical diagnosis; focuses on identifying issues for nursing intervention.
• Example: A patient with pneumonia is identified to have "impaired breathing" as a nursing diagnosis.

Planning Based on Assessment

• Develop a plan of care with goals and specific actions/interventions.
• Aim to improve patient outcomes and set measurable goals.

Implementation

• The "action phase" where planned interventions are carried out.

Evaluation

• Review the outcomes of interventions.
• Determine if goals were met.
• If necessary, restart the ADPIE process.

Important Takeaway

• The assessment is critical and foundational in nursing practice.
• Involves critical thinking to collect, verify, and analyze patient information effectively.