Nursing Student Assessment Worksheet

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Hey everyone,

So a few months back I started scouring these boards for a assessment worksheet or head-to-toe assessment guide that I could use to help me with my charting in clinical, something that could help me organize my thoughts and become better at charting all of my assessments. So after looking at quite a few different worksheets that people have submitted on this website and on the web in general I have decided to come up with my own. Finally after weeks of working on it in my spare time I think I am done with it and now I want to see what nursing students, nurses and nursing instructors think about it. I want to make it clear that it is not meant to replace charting your assessments but more serve as a guide to help nursing students organize their thoughts and make sure that they have their bases covered so to speak. Plus I think they are helpful to make sure you have all of your findings for when you submit your careplans and patient preps to your instructors (if your school has you do that). So please feel free to download it, take a look at it and certainly use it if you think it is helpful. Please let me know what you think about it and any suggestions to improve it. It may seem obvious but just in case it isn't, anything that has a blank space for you to fill in then write it in and circle any of the findings that apply to your patient.

!Chris :specs:

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Specializes in Critical Care, Trauma, Neuroscience.

Wow, thank you SO much! I really think this is going to help - I've been having such a hard time documenting my assessments.

It's my first semester in clinical, and we have a chart to fill out, but it's just a sheet of paper with the system and then a blank. Like it's just:

neuro - ________________________

cardiac - _______________________

respiratory- _____________________

... etc.

we're basically just supposed to know the correct wording and exactly what to be looking for - it's so intimidating! I've already gotten mine marked up so much, and the worst part of it is when my instructor gives the it back to me full of red marks and illegible comments, I still am pretty foggy as to what I did wrong or what I should have been looking for/documenting.

Soooo THANK you! I'm going to try it out Tuesday at clinical!

Specializes in Telemetry.

Chris,

I don't know how to thank you enough!!!! I am a first semester nursing student and I literally have several physical assessment forms and several books ready on the table because I was going to do exactly what you just did.....I have been putting it off because I know it would take me days and days. I so badly wanted a great physical assessment form. Before yours, I had never found what I liked. Either too vague or too detailed. I'm so glad I decided to look on the web once more! Thank you!!!!

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