Health assessment and the nursing process: A means to an end?

Marie Casey
Faculty of Nursing, Griffith University, QLD

Joyce Hendricks-Thomas
Faculty of Nursing and Health Care, Griffith University, QLD

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Abstract

The content and process of teaching health assessment coupled with the nursing process gathers momentum because it is consistent with health policy based on the principles of economic rationalism, and it covertly perpetuates positivist medical discourse while overtly postulating the emancipatory nature of adopting such practices.

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Keywords

nursing process, health assessment, holism, discourse theory


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