Online Companion: Fundamentals of Nursing Standards and Practice 2E

Chapter Objectives

After reading Chapter 10, the student should be ready to
• Describe the purposes and activities of the fifth step of nursing process: evaluation.
• Correlate the implementation step to other steps of nursing process: assessment, problem identification, planning and implementation
• Discuss the relationship between evaluation and quality client care
• List the guidelines for evaluating nursing care
• Compare and contrast three types of evaluation: structure, process, and outcome.
• Discuss two methods of evaluating quality of nursing care: nursing audit and peer review.