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In this essay I will use the nursing process which is an individualised problem-solving approach to nursing care. It involves four stages: assessment (of the patient's problems), planning (how to resolve them), implementation (of the plans), and evaluation (of their success). (Oxford Nurses Dictionary, Fifth edition, 2003 New York). I shall be focusing on one aspect of the nursing process, which will be implementation. The implementation phase is when you put your care plan into action. Implementation encompasses all nursing interventions directed at solving the patient's problems and meeting health care needs. While you co-ordinate implementation, you also seek help from the patient, the patient's family, and other members of the health-care team. (Lippencott, Williams and Wilkins, Medical-Surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, 2004). I have already used the process of planning to work out the solutions to my Patient's needs. I referred to the workings of the SMART (Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and...

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