Which action indicates the nurse is using the nursing process in patient care?
A) Generates nursing knowledge for use in nursing practice.
B) Conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to predict nursing care.
C) Develops nursing care as a specific, distinct phenomenon.
D) Delivers nursing care using a systematic approach.

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The nursing process provides a systematic approach for the delivery of nursing care. Theory generates nursing knowledge for use in practice; the nursing process is not a theory. A nursing theory conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, or prescribe nursing care. An interdisciplinary theory explains a phenomenon specific to the discipline that developed the theory.

Which Action Indicates the Nurse Is Using the Nursing Process