ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Nursing process

The nursing process is like playing a game of doctor. Just like when you visit the doctor, your nurse needs to follow a series of steps to make sure you get better. Here are the steps nurses follow:

1. Assessing: This is like checking how much hurt you have. Nurses will ask you a lot of questions, take your temperature, and look at your body to figure out what is wrong.

2. Diagnosing: This is like naming the hurt you have. Nurses use their observations and assessments to figure out what is making you feel unwell.

3. Planning: This is like deciding what to do about the hurt. Nurses will come up with a plan to make you feel better. They may give you medicine, teach you how to do things to help, or refer you to other medical professionals.

4. Implementing: This is like following the plan. Nurses will start doing things to help you feel better, like giving you medicine, changing your bed position, or helping you get up to walk around a little.

5. Evaluating: This is like checking if the plan worked. Nurses will watch you to see if the things they did to help you feel better actually work. If they did not, they may try a different plan to help you feel better.

Overall, the nursing process is like taking care of your health in a very organized way by figuring out what is wrong with you, coming up with a plan, and seeing if it works. Just like when you play a game of doctor at home, nurses follow these steps to make sure you feel better.