The nursing profession is vast and has many specific disciplines, therefore it is necessary to implement frameworks. These frameworks govern various procedures, including: health assessments, effective communication, nurse/patient interactions, health education and promotion, clinical reasoning, and thinking strategies. These procedures are essential to the functioning of a health service and must be moderated to ensure the effectiveness of the treatment. Inadequate data collection from patients is unacceptable, which is why it is necessary to have and implement health assessment frameworks or strategies. Health or nursing assessments are continuous cycles of data collection and inferences. Steps should be taken to ensure adequate collection of objective and subjective data. These measurements must be taken in order, otherwise an inaccurate assessment may occur. These stages are: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation (Lewis, Foley, Weber, & Kelley, 2011, p. 2-5). Nursing assessments aim to collect subjective and objective data to determine a patient's overall functionality in order to make a clinical judgment, the nurse collects data relating to all areas of individual health. It is my opinion that proper health assessments are necessary to ensure that a patient receives the correct treatment plan. All health assessment frameworks follow the same steps in organizing treatment. Due to the wide range of nursing disciplines, emphasis is placed on these individual steps, i.e. the emergency room could focus more on assessment in order to triage the patient. To help provide relief to patients or family members who may be distraught, a healthcare professional should take the time to explain...... middle of paper ...... previous events. In conclusion, reflection is a necessary skill for a nurse to function effectively in order to identify risk factors, which can be reduced through better preparation. In summary, there is a constant need for healthcare executives to govern nursing procedures. Nursing assessments require frameworks to reduce the risk of mistreatment, effective communication is necessary between colleagues and patients to avoid confusion. A standard of professionalism is required to ensure that nurses do not become overly involved with their patients, education is important in promoting individual health, clinical reasoning is vital to the immediate treatment of a patient. Finally, reflection is ideal for analyzing positives and negatives, it is best to follow the Gibbs reflection cycle when evaluating methods. Health executives will play a constant role in regulating procedures.