The nursing process is a systematic method used to identify, treat and prevent actual and potential health problems and promote wellness (Thuvaraka et al., 2018). It provides guidelines to orderly reasoning in the clinical milieu (Isika, 2018;Stonehouse, 2017) to provide quality individualized care in a holistic and organized manner (Isika, 2018;Mahmoud & Bayoumy, 2014;Varcarolis, 2016). However, nurses encounter challenges in implementing and documenting the nursing process (Leoni-Scheiber et al., 2019).The application of the nursing process yields good patient outcomes globally (Afolayan et al., 2013), gives visibility to the work nurses do (Figueiredo et al., 2014) and is used in clinical practice to provide quality individualized care to clients (Mahmoud & Bayoumy, 2014).The nursing process constitutes a systematic and dynamic approach to deliver nursing care, operating through five phases: assessment,