The student nurse learning to write nursing care plans learns that evaluation:
A) happens at the end of an episode of care.
B) is valuable when the patient has met goals.
C) occurs at each step of the nursing process.
D) should occur every few days on a schedule.

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Evaluation should occur at each step of the nursing process to ensure that appropriate actions were taken.It may be done to judge whether assessment data were accurate or whether planned interventions were effective.An evaluation should occur at the end of an episode of care, but this is not the only time it should occur; thus, this is not the best answer.Evaluation after the patient has met goals does not really help the nursing process for that patient.Evaluation should occur more frequently than every few days; it should also occur on a less rigid schedule.

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