Monitoring and Assessment
Monitoring and assessment are fundamental nursing procedures. Routine and more specialist observations are used to ensure patients' comfort, assess their condition and monitor their progress. These observations can be essential to patients' recovery or to preventing further ill health.
This section of Nursingtimes.net looks at the main monitoring and assessment procedures, including information such as:
- Why they are needed
- Normal values
- Equipment needed
- Recording the information
- The procedure
- Frequency
The section also includes information on common diagnostic tests, explaining why they are undertaken and the nursing considerations for each.
Assessment procedures
The use of body measurements to assess nutritional status
Nutrition and eating disorders
Nutritional screening and assessment
Respiratory assessment
Diagnostic tests
