Topics About 'Patient Assessments'.

So as I’ve written before, the facility I work for, I am the only RN on duty at night. The rest of the nurses are LPN's, and to make matters worse, 90% of the LPN'S are agency. Even the LPN nursing supervisors are agency. My company would r...

Hi, Does anyone know where I can take a patient/physical assessment course? I've tried Humber, Seneca, Centennial, George Brown...any other ideas?

Hi all! Was wondering if I could get some help on something. I was at Clinicals today and I completed a physical assessment on my patient , and at the very end I noticed that the urine in the Foley was a dark orange color. I know I know, that there...

I have long had some disagreements with the way assessment is traditionally taught. I don't believe that it is automatic that if you know the normal you can recognise the abnormal. Sometimes assessment, particularly in the hospital setting is about e...

Does anyone have assessment sheets that they use for multiple patients that I could look at? We're beginning to get at least 2 patients now -- which is great but I'm having problems coming up with a form that helps me organize the info on both pati...

I have been an RN for 18 months on a busy paediatric surgical ward, and am getting a bit anxious that I'm losing many skills we learnt at university. Not one single nurse carry's around stethoscopes to auscultate heart/lung/bowel sounds or palpates a...

To be honest, do you do the full head to toe pt assessment every shift?

I am a new RN precepting with my mentor. My preceptor has over 20 yrs experience on med-surg floor. When she is doing assessmnets on patients, she just listens to lungs, abdomen, pedla pulses and she is done. I wonder sometimes why she is not looking...

I have been out of bedside care for 1 - 2 years now. I recently stayed with a relative during their hospital stay. In the 24 hours we were there, only once did anyone actually do a physical assessment using a stethoscope on a patient with respiratory...

The aim of this "game" is to look at critical indicators in assessment. Some of the patients in the following scenario are in "deep trouble" but some may not be. Can you identify the ones in trouble? If you can write what you think on a piece of pa...

Hi everyone. I'm a nursing student and I found out yesterday that I was assigned to do my clinicals at a Spinal Cord Rehab unit of a hospital. I have never been to a rehab unit ever in my entire 3 years in nursing school and have no idea what kind of...