Nursing Assessments in Aged Care

Chapter 2: Nursing Assessments

Overview:
Provides information surrounding aged‐care assessments, including ideas for:

• Beginning an assessment
• Assessing the whole person
• Assessment frameworks and methods
• Determining the duration of assessments

Description:
Persons admitted to aged‐care facilities require thorough assessment which allows them to be placed in suitable facilities. This chapter provides essential methods and guidelines for assessors as they begin to determine care provision for the aged.

Topics:

• Introduction
• The nature of assessment
• Beginning an assessment
• Assessing the whole person
• Frameworks for assessment
• Assessment methods
• Assessment domains
  • Physical domain
  • Psychological domain
  • Social domain
• Functional assessments
• Duration of assessments
• Conclusion

Speaker / Author:

Sue Forster

Sue Forster completed her general nurse training at the Queen Alexandra Royal Naval Nursing Service in the UK and abroad. She has extensive clinical, educational, and managerial experience at senior levels gained from a long nursing career in Europe, Australia, and Africa. For the past ten years Sue has managed her own educational consultancy business. Her special interests include gerontic care, continuous quality improvement, and human resource management. Sue is dedicated to the education and empowerment of her nursing colleagues through the provision of sound evidence-based practice within a holistic framework of quality care.

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