Pflegebezogene Assessmentinstrumente

Nurses need valid and reliable assessment tools to assess patients' care needs and to explore care phenomena or concepts such as anxiety, pressure ulcers, nutrition, fatigue, cognition, continence, quality of life, mobility, oral health, falls, sleep, pain, and nausea in a valid and reliable way. This handbook summarizes the assessment procedures needed for this purpose, explains their utility, maps them, and comments on their reliability, validity, and practicality. It shows in detail how nursing-related assessment procedures can be conceptually classified and systematized, why they are useful, how they were developed, and what criteria are used for evaluation. Specifically, assessment instruments for the following phenomena, nursing diagnostic foci, and nursing diagnoses are presented and described: family satisfaction, anxiety, excretion, decubitus risk, nutrition, fatigue, cognitive status and behavioral diagnosis in dementia, quality of life, mobility and motor function, obstipation and constipation risk, dependency of care, sleep, pain, fall risk, thrombosis risk, nausea, and urinary incontinence. With this milestone, Reuschenbach and Mahler present the most comprehensive handbook on nursing-related assessment instruments for nursing research and nursing practice.