deficit and potential for injury
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Medical practice problems concern a medical condition and provide information about the patient’s pathophysiology. Whereas a nursing practice problem concerns the human response to an actual or potential health problems and life processes. An example of a medical problem would be a CVA or stroke and the physiological conditions that accompany that. In contrast the nursing practice problems for this situation can include impaired verbal communication, risk for falls, interrupted family process, or powerlessness. In addition the nursing practice problem can include multiple problems for one medical problem (Herdman, 2016.) An example of how medical and nursing practice problems differentiate is pneumonia and the physiological symptoms that accompany it vs the nursing practice problem associated would be knowledge deficit and potential for injury (Henry, 1995.)
It is important that nurses recognize the difference between the two and are able to focus their research on nursing specific problems, because that is what can be brought to the bedside and implemented. As the textbook describes, “The nursing profession has always sought to improve care provided to patients to improve patient outcomes (GCU, 2018.” This is supported by the realization by hospitals within recent years that investing into nursing can improve patient outcomes and supporting nursing research results in EBP coming to the bedside in a faster manner. (GCU, 2018.)
