Click this button and it will take you to the book I use, mine is an older version but it all works! You could rent it this semester, but I recommend buying it - especially if you get into the program!
Nursing process PPT, it may be the same as what you learned from but here it is again!
Here is my NP assignment #1, this is just to give you an example. I went through and corrected my mistakes so this is a very detailed example! DO NOT COPY, I will hunt you down (:
My advice
Use Maslow's if you can, but generally the most pressing issues are the ones you want to pick. If the patient isn't having major problems think about chances of infection, fluid imbalance, nutritional imbalance, safety issues, etc., before you move on to more general things like pain, comfort, coping, or knowledge deficits, etc.
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They want you to think critically, about what your patient is at risk for, what is happening to them, etc., so try to stay away from super general things like nausea, impaired comfort, etc., but if all else fails these are completely acceptable.
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STAY AWAY FROM MEDICAL DIAGNOSES at all costs, if the problem is related to the medical diagnosis of the patient state the pathophysiology of the disease process instead.
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For example instead of impaired gas exchange r/t COPD AEB tripod position, low O2 stat, and dyspnea, as a nursing student we would put impaired gas exchange r/t alveolar-capillary membrane changes or inflammation of the respiratory tract or destruction of alveoli in the lungs, etc., AEB .....
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There are many different ways to word things, that is all up to you. Try to be as specific if you can without stating the medical diagnosis, for instance in the example above if my patient had emphysema (a condition of COPD) I would say r/t destruction of alveoli in the lungs instead of inflammation of the respiratory tract as it is more specific to emphysema.