1.9 Key Takeaways
Key Takeaways
- The College of DuPage Associate Degree Nursing Program identifies patient-centered care as the application of nursing judgment to ensure the delivery of patient-centered care and promotion of health for patients within a family and community context.
- Nurses care for individuals holistically, including their emotional, spiritual, psychosocial, cultural, and physical needs.
- EDI is an acronym that includes the three interrelated concepts of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- The nursing process becomes a road map for the actions and interventions that nurses implement to optimize their patients’ well-being and health.
- Before learning how to use the nursing process, it is important to understand critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in nursing practice.
- Evidence-based practice looks at clinical expertise, research evidence, and patients’ needs and values.
- Nurses typically use Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to prioritize urgent patient needs, with the bottom two rows of the pyramid receiving top priority.
