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Nursing Rounds: Definition and Importance

This document discusses nursing rounds, which are a method used by nursing teams to explore and discuss nursing problems experienced by patients. Nursing rounds can be carried out daily, weekly, or monthly, and involve primary nurses, associate nurses, counselors, room heads, and other healthcare workers discussing patients' conditions directly with them. The goals of nursing rounds are to reduce issues like patient falls and increase patient and nurse satisfaction by improving nursing staff's knowledge and professionalism. Tools like books, pens, and patient documentation can be used during nursing rounds to aid discussion.

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Nursing Rounds: Definition and Importance

This document discusses nursing rounds, which are a method used by nursing teams to explore and discuss nursing problems experienced by patients. Nursing rounds can be carried out daily, weekly, or monthly, and involve primary nurses, associate nurses, counselors, room heads, and other healthcare workers discussing patients' conditions directly with them. The goals of nursing rounds are to reduce issues like patient falls and increase patient and nurse satisfaction by improving nursing staff's knowledge and professionalism. Tools like books, pens, and patient documentation can be used during nursing rounds to aid discussion.

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NURSING

ROUNDS

DP ERA

POLTEKKES KALTIM
2020
DEFINITION

a method to explore and discuss in-depth nursing problems


that occur in patients. Carried out by primary or associate
nurses, counselors, heads of rooms, and the entire nursing
team and other health workers such as physiotherapist,
laboratorist, radiologists, nutritionist, by involving patients
directly as the focus of activities.
Importance of nursing round

– It generates the following condition:


– Reduction in patient falls
– Decrease call light use
– Enhance nurse satisfaction
– Increase patient satisfaction
– Improve the knowledge and professionalism of nursing staff
FREQUENCY
• Nursing rounds can be carried out daily, --> in order to
obtain information during the handover led by the team
leader,
• Weekly  rounds carried out by selecting patients which
aim to increase the achievement of nursing care without
specific cases and led by the head of the room,
• once a month  the round which led by the head of the
nursing section.
PATIENT CRITERIA
TARGETS
• There are two criteria for
patients who can be carried
out by the nursing round, 1)
having nursing problems that
have not been resolved even The targets of the nursing
though nursing actions have round are patients, nurses,
been taken and 2) patients facilities, nursing
with new or rare cases documentation and the
(Nursalam 2011). condition of the ward,
including cleanliness and
tidiness.
METODE

Nurses discuss with each


• The nursing round in its other and provide input
implementation uses the about nursing care that
needs to be done to solve
method of discussion patient problems
between team members
and patients about
nursing problems that
exist in patients
(Nursalam 2011).
Vocabularies:
INSTRUMENT - Explore : menggali
AID - Reduction/ decrease: penurunan,
pengurangan
- Increase: meningkatkan
• To support the nursing - Enhance: memperkuat
round of activities to run - Rare : jarang
- Tidy: rapi, tidiness: kerapian
well, assistive tools can be - In order to: untuk
used, for example, for - Carried out: dilaksanakan
discussion, you can use - Have not been resolved: belum
diselesaikan
books and pens, patient - Have been taken: telah diambil/ telah
nursing status or dilakukan
documentation or materials
that are delivered orally
(Nursalam 2011).

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