What is it about?
Hourly rounding is an organized practice where nurses perform regular checks on individual patients at fixed intervals in order to elicit any information that will improve the patient’s care and well-being. Weaknesses in the existing literature on rounding include a lack of focus on the nurse–patient interaction, the absence of a guiding theoretical framework, and, lastly, marginal implementation of rounding within the psychiatric setting. The intent of this article is to address these weaknesses by describingand proposing a rounding tool, based upon the acronym ICARE, to be used in the inpatient psychiatric setting. Roach’s Theory on Caring will be the theoretical underpinnings for the basis of this rounding initiative.
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Why is it important?
It is the belief that the hourly rounding initiative will improve satisfaction and the overall quality of care for the psychiatric patient.
Perspectives
The majority of the rounding initiatives have occurred within medical surgical hospital settings and have shown promise in regards to its impact on patient satisfaction. This is the first article to implement a rounding initiative within a psychiatric setting which is grounded in a theoretical framework.
Mary-Ann DaSilva
University of Rhode Island
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This page is a summary of: A Model for Rounding With Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital, Perspectives In Psychiatric Care, July 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ppc.12182.
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