Health Care

Nursing Assessment

Evaluation of the nature and extent of nursing problems presented by a patient for the purpose of patient care planning.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Evaluation of the nature and extent of nursing problems presented by a patient for the purpose of patient care planning.

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7 entry terms
  • Assessment, Nursing
  • Assessments, Nursing
  • Nursing Assessments
  • Nursing Protocols
  • Protocols, Nursing
  • Nursing Protocol
  • Protocol, Nursing

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

to evaluate nature & extent of nurs problems of patient to plan patient care; do not confuse with NURSING AUDIT (to evaluate quality of nurs care)

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History Note

87(80); was see under NURSING PROCESS 1980-86, was NURSING DIAGNOSIS see under NURSING CARE 1975-79

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WY 100.4

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Nursing Assessment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009730. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009730
  2. Nursing Assessment. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_assessment
  3. Nursing Assessment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1476755