ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the problem-solving approach to care, and shows how it relates to nursing students everyday work as a nurse. It also explores the ideas of the problem-solving process (APIE) as described by Yura and Walsh, and expands them to include two extra stages. ASPIRE also offers an explanation of what experienced practitioners do during the stage of evaluation to make the task more transparent and understandable for novice nurses. Summative evaluation is when the effectiveness of the process and general approach to care is evaluated. Assessment is a much more complex process than admission and therefore should only be undertaken by a registered nurse or by a student supervised by a registered nurse. The purpose of setting goals is to help nursing students and the patient solve or alleviate problems and, where possible, avoid potential problems from becoming actual problems.
