The nursing process: application of current thinking in clinical problem solving

This paper explores some of the ideas emanating from recent literature in clinical problem solving and applies it to the nursing process. The aim is to demonstrate that there is congruence between ideas developed in the medical educational literature that support and expand the somewhat‘looser’nursing process model. The conclusion is that the nursing process is further validated by the current literature, particularly the work of Elstein et al. (1978).