Gewenste resultaten, interventies en evaluatie van zorg

As a nurse you provide care based on a continuous, cyclical process of clinical reasoning. This includes risk assessment, early identification, problem recognition, evidence-based interventions, monitoring and evaluation. By identifying the patient's need for care or a health risk in good time and formulating the correct diagnosis, interventions and results based on clinical reasoning, you can achieve high-quality, optimal patient care. In the cyclical process of clinical reasoning, you make well-considered and substantiated choices for an appropriate intervention based on evidence, the patient's wishes and preferences, collected data and your own insight and experience. This chapter describes the desired results of care provision, how to use interventions as a nurse to achieve a desired result and how care is evaluated. A distinction is made between cognitive, behavioral and technical interventions. Single and multiple interventions, best practice and evidence-based interventions, protocols, guidelines, evaluation of care and monitoring are discussed.