Nursing: The discipline of safe care
Nursing is the applied science of preventing harm where illness is already in the room.
The nursing process
Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, evaluate. Nurses move through this loop every shift for every patient, and the loop never skips assessment: if the data you gather is wrong, everything built on it inherits the error.
Assess → Diagnose → Plan → Implement → EvaluateSafety first
Most nursing errors are systems errors, not knowledge gaps. The five rights of medication administration (patient, drug, dose, route, time) exist because each one has failed somewhere and hurt someone.
5 rights: patient · drug · dose · route · timeWhat this course teaches
Nine units walk the nurse-in-training from the fundamentals of the nursing process through clinical skills, pharmacology, med-surg, maternity and pediatrics, mental health, nutrition, population health, and evidence-based practice.
Flashcard
The five steps of the nursing process
Check your understanding
A medication error was made during a busy shift. The hospital review should focus first on: