Critically Ill Patient Assessment Essay

Nurses knowledge on initial assessment of critically ill patients
Nurses knowledge is playing an important role on assess and identify critically ill patient. Ongoing specific clinically education and skills training enable nurses to recognize and respond to critically ill patient. The level of education was identified as an important predictor in ward nurses’ ability to quickly recognize patient deterioration (Massey at al., 2017).
The study done in Greece on the factors influencing nurse’s decisions to activate medical emergency team showed that nurses who are at masters level were more confident in assess and recognizing patient deterioration. Nurses who had graduated from a 4-year university educational programme identified patient deterioration
Also noted that there were few interventions to treat abnormal physiology on which 32% of patients with abnormal physiology without intervention did not survive (Ryton-malden, 2011). The study conducted in Australia on nurses documentation of physiological observation in three acute care setting. It was observed that the most frequently documented physiological parameters across all clinical areas are respiratory rates, saturation of oxygen, heart rates and systolic blood pressure while temperature and Glasgow coma scale (GCS) were least recorded (Considine, Trotter, & Currey,