Results if nurses activity meets patient s immediate need for help. Both the nurse and patient s individual perceptions, thoughts, and feelings. Unmet needs require help. They act in response to this reaction. Nurse Acts - when the nurse acts, it initiates the nursing process.
Actions can be automatic or deliberative.
Deliberative actions involve asking the patient about the nurse s perception, providing patients opportunity to respond to it. Allows for validation or corrections of thoughts and feelings. Automatic actions occur with little thought and without validation. Nurses use of deliberative actions will be less costly than automatic nursing actions Patients experiencing repeated improvement as a result of deliberative nursing action will have positive cumulative effects. They are sometimes able to meet their own needs for help, but become distressed when unable to do so.