title: Biopsychosocial nursing assessment: a way to enhance care plans.
abstract: 1. A psychiatric nursing assessment tool reinforces the primary nursing care model; re-establishes nursing's input at comprehensive treatment plan meeting; reorients the staff to the total nursing needs of the client; and provides a tool for establishing nursing diagnoses. 2. Implementation of the nursing assessment form has educated other staff about professional nursing practice, as well as promoted a greater understanding of the nursing process and reinforced accountability for the nurses. 3. The form enables clients to be viewed from a holistic biopsychosocial nursing context, and nursing care plan recommendations are more individualized and inclusive of the total aspects of patient needs.
authors.affiliation: Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Syracuse, New York.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Catherman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006694:Holistic Health; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008875:Middle Aged; D009518:New York; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011321:Primary Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D009626:Terminology as Topic