Mnemonics Question

Welcome to Allnurses.

I've heard of it but can't think right now. Hopefully someone will come along who knows. Good luck in school.

I just started the vocational nursing program this past week & I have a question about mnemonics. Has anyone heard of SMART? If so, please let me know what it stands for. TIA.

I started a mneumonics thread on the student board last summer; this was on it! It's for Parkinson's symptoms:

SMART:

Shuffling gait

Mask-like face

Akinesia

Rigidity

Tremor

There are many different variations so the correct answer must correlate with the context of your class. However, one possibility is when writing nursing care plans; the outcomes must always be SMART:

S Specific

M Measurable

A Attainable

R Relevant

T Time-bound

For example, instead of writing “the patient will have little or no pain” as an outcome, it is SMART to phrase it like this: “The patient will report pain at 3 or less on a 0-10 scale within 1 hour after analgesic medication has been administered."

T.

Yeah...its for nursing care plans.

S- specific

M- measurable

A- achievable

R- realistic

T- time