The nursing process follows five steps in order: Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. Assessment always comes first, whether you're answering NCLEX questions or caring for a patient. After evaluation, you loop back to reassessment.
All right. Prioritization principle number three for nursing school is the nursing process. So always be thinking about the nursing process when you go take your nursing school exams. And of course, when you're at clinical, basically always. So the nursing process is adpy. So remember adpy, assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. So you always assess your patient first. So anytime you get an NCLEX question that asks you what your priorities, what your first action will be, make sure that you are always thinking about assessing. Make sure you always assess your patient first, then move on to the nursing diagnosis, plan what you're going to do, implement what you're going to do, and then, of course, evaluate, which is basically going back to the assessment. We're going to reassess our patient, reassess the situation.
