Community nursing assessment

Professional, legal and ethical dimensions of prescribing. Part 1: professional

“…Suboptimal assessment can be linked to delays in care, misdiagnosis, error, harm, the lack of a baseline against which to judge improvement or deterioration, or a lack of concordance with treatment regimens (Munroe et al 2013, Gough 2018. A new model designed to guide decision-making in prescribing uses the mnemonic RAPID-CASE (Figure 1) (Gould and Bain 2022).…”

“…A leg ulcer or wound care assessment template can be useful for structuring the specific assessment, prompting prescribers to ask about pain and record findings. However, Gough (2018) argued that tools can be applied in an overly prescriptive way and potentially limit a partnership approach.…”