Nursing Interventions

Today we are going to talk about Nursing Interventions. After you complete your assessment and develop a nursing diagnosis it is time to intervene in your patients care. Nursing interventions play an important role in the nursing process that allow for nurses to care for and treat their patients. According to Merriam-Webster (2010) the definition of intervene is “to come in or between way of hindrance or modification.”
Nursing interventions are very important for nursing students to become aware of.

Students must be taught these skills in their clinical setting with help from their clinical faculty. According to Baxter & Boblin (2008) “clinical decision making is a skill learned most often in the clinical setting,” (p. 345). It is important for you as students to take an active role in your clinical setting. Your clinical faculty is there as a resource for you to use to help make intervention for your patients.

I have shared the following article with your clinical instructors and would like to share it with you. This is a study on how nursing interventions must be taught by the clinical faculty. However, it is important that you take responsibility for your education and try to gain as much valuable information while in your clinical setting. Please let me know what you think and let’s have an active discussion this week!

Baxter, P. & Boblin, S. (2008). Decision making by baccalaureate nursing students in the clinical setting. Journal of Nursing Education. Retrieved September 2, 2010 from http://web.ebscohost.com.kaplan.uah.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=4&hid=9&sid=4af7f31c-ceab-4afa-b7aa-71e2dc263ae7%40sessionmgr4

Intervene. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved September 2, 2010 from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intervention