Implementing nursing diagnoses.

Abstract

This article has explained the strategies used in one institution to make nursing diagnosis an integral part of the daily practice of its professional nurses. It has also described what the professional nurses at one institution have accomplished to make recording of the nursing process, which clearly delineated nursing diagnosis, more efficient in short-term units. As nurses subscribe more to the professional imperative to describe our phenomena of concern, creative minds will undoubtedly develop alternate recording methods for these time-pressured units. Preprinted forms are excellent prototypes for the data screens that need to be developed as more nursing departments have computer capabilities.