The impact structured patient assessment frameworks have on patient care: an integrative review

Abstract

Acute care clinicians should consider using structured patient assessment frameworks in clinical practice to enhance their performance of patient assessment.

A structured framework improves clinical patient assessment and nontechnical skills of early career emergency nurses: a pre–post study using full immersion simulation

“…chest pain) (Munroe et al . ). Limited evidence was also found indicating a structured approach to patient assessment enhances clinical documentation, care delivery and subsequent patient outcomes (Munroe et al .…”

Clinical assessment in trauma and orthopaedic nursing

“…The use of an assessment tool or framework can provide a structured approach to the process, helping to ensure an accurate and systematic assessment. In turn this may help to enhance patient care and management (Collins et al, 2011;Fennessey and Wittmann-Price, 2011;Zambas, 2010) and clinician performance (Munroe et al, 2013).…”

“…Accurate assessment provides information on the health status of a patient that can help the clinician and members of the multi-professional team determine the healthcare needs of the patient (Munroe et al, 2013). Assessment is considered a social, dynamic and interactive process in which the patient and the clinician play an integral part (Bryans and McIntosh, 2000).…”

Promoting the 6Cs of nursing in patient assessment

“…Do you feel that the signs and symptoms were detected in a timely manner and that appropriate interventions were implemented? Munroe et al (2013) argue that systematic assessment frameworks may potentially enhance interaction between clinicians through providing a unifying structure on which to base assessments, ensuring all members of the team caring for a patient are working towards the same goal. Therefore the basis to facilitating effective understanding of the assessment approach, and to improving quality of care, lies in encouraging student nurses to consider an adapted use of the structured ABCDE assessment on all patients' within their care.…”