1. Govt. college of nursing bagh-i-dilawar khan srinagar
TOPIC:
NURSING ROUNDS AND REPORTS
Prepared by:
Amir Mushtaq
2. NURSING ROUNDS
INTRODUCTION:
Clinical Teaching Method
A Small group of nursing professionals assemble on the patient’s
bedside to discuss the routine nursing care provided to patients so
that efficient nursing care be ensured.
Meanwhile, nursing students can also be taught about nursing care.
3. DEFNITION:
It is a clinical teaching method in which a group of nursing students
are taken for a selected patient’s bedside visit by one or more nursing
faculties to discuss about the progress of the patient and further plan
of care , which provides the students first-hand learning experience.
A Nursing round is a tour into the patient’s ward to provide the
student a learning experience.
PURPOSES:
1. To aware the staff and students with all patients admitted in the
ward.
2. To clarify the terminology studied.
3. To demonstrate the effects of drugs.
4. To plan and provide skilful nursing care.
5. To study the disease condition
6. To demonstrate the specific clinical features of particular diseases
condition , which are important for planning the nursing care
interventions.
5. ADVANTAGES OF NURSING ROUNDS
Provides opportunity to learn about the patient’s progress
through the highly experienced nursing experts.
Provides an opportunity to students to learn about the
effects of different drugs , nursing interventions and
change in the plan of nursing management .
Facilitates to learn about more patients in short time .
Nursing rounds motivates students to develop an ability to
classify the patients into high-risk, moderate-risk, and
low-risk categories depending on the severity of illness.
6. DISADVANTAGES
It is not a suitable method of teaching for bigger group of
students.
Bedside discussion may be uncomfortable or
discomforting.
It may be a cause of anxiety
Requires carefully planning
7. NURSING REPORTS
DEFINITION:
Reporting is the process of communicating knowledge gained/learnt while providing
care to patient’s , to other health care team members.
A nursing report is a document that nurses hand over to others at shift change to let
them know the patient’s conditions.
OBJECTIVES:
Reports are essential tools of communication between the members of the health
team .
Good reports will avoid duplication of work.
Good reports will indicate the efficiency of the health team (student nurses )in
carrying out their assignments.
Reports will tell us why a particular procedure is done or not done.
Good report will tell us about the problems relating to supplies and equipments.
8. Types of reporting:
1.Oral Report:
>>>oral reports are given when the information is for immediate use
and not for permanency.
2.written Report:
>>> written reports are to be written when the information to be used
by several personnel which is more or less of permanent.
3.Change of shift report:
>>>Most commonly used reporting in nursing .
>>>At the end of each shift nurses report information about their
assigned client’s to the nurses working on the next shift .
4.Transfer reports:
>>>It involves communication of information about clients from nurse
on the sending to the nurse on the receiving ward.
9. 5.Incident report:
>>>writing a detailed report on mistakes or accidents that has
taken place in the care of patients.
6.Evaluation Reports:
>>>Monthly evaluation reports of students are sent to the principal
of school/college of nursing or to the head nurses. This will help
the students to get an awareness about their performance and to
make further improvement.