title: A two-level approach to nursing process.
abstract: Nurses have problems integrating the nursing process and care plans into their nursing practice. This problem affects patient outcomes and nursing practice issues. Encouraging trends have been observed when nurses adopted a two-level approach to relearn and implement the nursing process. Assessments were more comprehensive, nursing diagnoses were more specific, precise, and accurate, documentation was improved, and care plans were individualized. This article offers step by step guidelines to learn the two-level approach while recommending methods for teaching.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Young-Meyer
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D009736:Nursing Process