Nursing Rounds

1. NURSING ROUNDS
DR. MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR.
maheswarijaikumar2103@gmail.com

2. DEFINITION
• “A nursing round is one which
presents an overview of certain
aspects of the nursing or medical
care of all patients on the ward
or of selected patients”.
GABERSON.

3. THE HISTORY

4. THE POINEER OF ROUNDS

5. EARLY NURSING ROUNDS

6. TODAY’S ROUNDS

7. PURPOSE
• To acquaint nurses with all patients
on the more purposeful care may
be achieved for each patient.
• To help nurses to get acquainted
with new patients.

8. • To carry out demonstration of
therapeutic procedures on / for
the patients.
• To illustrate skillful nursing care.

9. • To learn about disease, pattern
of care and treatment.
• To demonstrate the effect of
drugs used in the treatment.

10. WHAT A NURSE COULD DO
IN A ROUNDS

12. SCHEDULE

13. STEPS INVOLVED IN ROUNDS
• The entire clinical group of
students are assembled at the
bedside of a pre selected patient
who has agreed to participate
and who has been briefed before
hand as to his role in the
learning experience.

16. • The instructor of the student
who is caring for the patient
briefs the nursing care.
• The staff nurses of the ward are
also allowed to contribute
certain genuine points regarding
patient care.

17. • Background information of the
patient can be provided away
from the bedside.
• The main focus is made on
nursing care and only important
aspects of the care are
discussed.

18. • At the end the instructor
concludes the discussion by
giving her opinion, guidance and
relevant instructions.
• The patient is finally briefed up
on the conclusions reached
following discussion.

19. • The staff nurse on
duty records all
the instructions
and suggestions
given by the
instructor and a
register (providing
the information)
is maintained in
the ward.

20. ADVANTAGES
• It ensures high degree of autonomy
among students.
• The presence of the patients as a
means to illustrate assessment
parameters or intervention
techniques.

21. • Nursing rounds provides input and
feedback from the perspective of
patient care and therefore gives an
opportunity to clarify issues related
to patient care.
• It facilitates a detailed discussion on
the nursing care of a single patient.

22. • Nursing Rounds helps the
students to develop
psychomotor skills and inculcate
proper attitude among the
nurses.

23. Interaction with
the senior
members
promote team
spirit and
professionalism
among
students.

24. • Nursing Rounds motivate students
to develop an ability to
discriminate or classify the patients
into high risk, risk, and no risk
categories depending on the
severity of illness.
• Helps students to learn in depth
regarding a case management.

25. DISADVANTAGES
• The patient may overhear the
discussion and he may not like the
thought that he is being talked about.
• Other patients in the same ward may
over hear the discussion which the
patient may not like.

26. • Insufficient information may
lead to inappropriate result.
• There may be distractions in the
ward and there could be
problems for the nurses to stand
in the ward.

27. • It cannot be organized for large
group and hence teaching
cannot be done for more
number of nurses.
• If the nurses are familiar with all
the patient’s the discussion may
be held in the conference room.

28. THANK YOU