Nursing Orders

[1234student]

Hello everyone. I'm a first sem nursing student. I was wondering if someone could explain nursing order to me. Possibly how they are written and so on....? THANKS

[matilda123]

What do you mean by nursing order?

[CuriousMe]

Do you mean a nursing diagnosis and then nursing interventions to address the diagnosis?

[1234student]

I mean what is a "nursing order"??? Not what is the order. What is an actual nursing order and how is it written.

[CuriousMe]

I mean what is a "nursing order"??? Not what is the order. What is an actual nursing order and how is it written.

And we're saying we haven't heard that term

I know about nursing diagnosis's and nursing interventions.....I haven't been ever heard or have been asked about a "nursing order."

Maybe you could give us some context? Where'd ya find it, is it an assignment, in a sentence in your textbook?

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

I have never heard of a "nursing order" only Doctor Orders, I have heard of nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions.

[1234student]

OK. Its in my objective questions. I can give you the actual questions, maybe that will help. We are talking about the nursing process and i have a different set of questions for each.

under planning-Explain the reason for nursing orders. Compare nursing orders with medical orders

-Discuss how nursing orders are written. Compare requirements with prohibitions

-Examine the relationship between nursing orders and goals/expeced outcomes

There is really no explaination of nursing orders in my book and I can't find much online??

[SolaireSolstice, BSN, RN]

Maybe the OP means a verbal/telephone order from a doctor, written by the nurse? Or orders that the doctor writes, meant to be carried out by the nurse?

Oh you responded while I was typing...

I can honestly say i have no idea what they are referring to. Interventions maybe? Independant interventions vs dependant interventions?

[1234student]

I don't think its interventions because thats a different section of questions and they ask about ind and dep interventions

[CuriousMe]

OK. Its in my objective questions. I can give you the actual questions, maybe that will help. We are talking about the nursing process and i have a different set of questions for each.

under planning-Explain the reason for nursing orders. Compare nursing orders with medical orders

-Discuss how nursing orders are written. Compare requirements with prohibitions

-Examine the relationship between nursing orders and goals/expeced outcomes

There is really no explaination of nursing orders in my book and I can't find much online??

Ahhh, so now we're getting somewhere. It's a step in the nursing process. I bet it is a nursing intervention. What does your book call the other steps of the nursing process?

If it is a nursing intervention, then it's just what an RN can do once she's/he's identified a specific problem (ie the nursing diagnosis).

So, imagine we have a patient with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) who, has pulmonary edema and isn't breathing well. There are things we can do that can help this patient breathe better, like making sue to keep the head of the bed raised, teach relaxed breathing techniques to slow down respirations, stuff like that.

If the book isn't getting into independent and dependent nursing interventions, I won't either. :)

Does that help?

Hmmmmm, just wrote what you posted while I was typing....could you maybe tell us what they call the parts of the nursing process?

[J9G2008]

At the hospital we have clinicals at, the nursing orders are those that do not require a doctor to fulfill. For example, my patient needed lotion for their skin that was not in clean utility, so the nurse wrote a "nursing order" to call it up from supply. Don't know any more than that.

[1234student]

The book goes through assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementing, and evaluating. The nursing order questions were under planning. The book does talk about nursing interventions in the planning chapter but never says anything about nursing orders. But then the teachers asked about interventions in the implementing section of questions?????

ps. thanks for all your help!