The nurse is using critical thinking skills during the first phase of the nursing process. Which action indicates the nurse is in the first phase?

A) Completes a comprehensive database
B) Identifies pertinent nursing diagnoses
C) Intervenes based on priorities of patient care
D) Determines whether outcomes have been achieved

Critical Thinking Skills

The ability to actively and skillfully conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize, and/or evaluate information gathered from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication.

Nursing Diagnoses

A clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes.

Nursing Process

A systematic, problem-solving approach used in nursing practice, involving assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation to provide effective patient care.