Assessment of Needs: Problems and Tasks of Developmental Stages

As you have read in BNS-101 and Unit 1 of this block assessment in the fundamental to the nursing process. Whether the nurse is involved with a healthy or a sick client, it is essential for her to establish a data base on which to formulate a nursing diagnosis, plan interventions and evaluate outcomes of care. Assessment, facilitates identification of present problems and prevention of future ones.In this unit you are going to learn about the assessment of needs/problems and tasks of individuals at different developmental stages.