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S 03 Corporate Education Session
CES Fresenius Medical Care
Transforming hidden resources into science: The Nursing Patient Assessment
Grosser Saal, 27th September 20159:00 – 10:30
Improving quality of care in the healthcare setting is a continuous process.
One of the roles of the nurse has always been, and still is, collecting the patient’s information but seldom to record it, and almost never to interpret it.
Moreover, patient assessment is performed on an informal basis, through exchanges between nurses and patients, and only rarely is it properly documented.
Patient assessment is a key component of nursing practice required for the planning and provision of patient care. Nurses, as members of the multidisciplinary clinical team, have always recognised that their involvement in patient assessment has important implications for patient outcome; however, the approach is still empirical.
Performing nursing assessment by means of a systematic approach, combined with multi-professional governance decision-making will improve nursing activities, quality of care and thus boost the nurses’ role in innovation of care.
Innovation in the provision of quality care is a continuous process as well, which is directly linked to interaction and feedback from the patients through daily human contact. Individual patients will benefit from innovative thinking as well as from specific initiatives aimed at quality improvement in clinical practice.
Nurses can identify better ways to care for patients and improve their outcomes through research and evidence-based practice. All patients in the dialysis setting deserve care that is truly centered on their needs.
An all-encompassing, evidence-based patient assessment should and must be embedded in everyday nursing care.
Session content
Stefano Stuard
The patient's general condition: Is the physician's evaluation enough?
BIOGRAPHY OF THE GUEST SPEAKER
Maria Teresa Parisotto
Measuring is Managing: The nursing patient review path
BIOGRAPHY OF THE GUEST SPEAKER
Francesco Pelliccia
Enlightening the path with the results: From empirical to evidence-based evaluation
BIOGRAPHY OF THE GUEST SPEAKER
Cristina Miriunis
Sharing is Caring: Structured assessment and communication to empower the patients