2. Outline
• Definition of implementation
• Types of nursing interventions
• Implementation process
• Direct and indirect care
3. Definition of
implementation
• The performance of nursing
intervention necessary for
achieving the goals and expected
outcomes of nursing care
4. Types of interventions
• Dependant intervention (use of
cognitive skills)
• Independent intervention (use of
technical skills)
• Interdependent intervention (use
of interpersonal skills)
5. Implementation process
• Is the efficient, safe and effective nursing
care which includes activities such as
reassessing the patient, reviewing and
revising the existing nursing care plan,
organising resources and care delivery,
anticipating and preventing complications,
and implementing nursing interventions.
6. Direct and indirect care
• Direct care: the provision of a wide variety of
direct care measures, those activities are the
ones that nurses perform through patient
interaction.eg bathing a patient and
administering an injection
• Indirect care: they are actions that support the
effectiveness of direct care measures NB.
Majority of them are managerial in nature eg.
Documentation, medical order transcription.
