What does physical assessment mean in nursing? A literature review Background: The
Coordination Reform has resulted in new challenges in health care. At the University of …

PROBLEM. Physical assessment skills are a mainstay of the nursing process and are taught
to pre‐licensure learners. Little research has been conducted on the skills that are actually …

• Background No previous research was found that compared basic knowledge in critical
care nursing among nurses from different nations. Nurses from outside the United States …

Aims and objectives The aims of the study were to describe which of the core techniques of
the physical assessment are regularly performed by a sample of Italian nurses, and to …

Background: It has been nearly a decade since findings revealed that a sample of US
nurses routinely used only 30 physical assessment techniques in clinical practice. In a time …

Aims and objectives To develop a scale to assess basic competence in intensive and critical
care nursing. In this study, basic competence denotes preliminary competence to practice in …

Purpose The study was done to investigate physical assessment skills used by, and
educational needs of, advanced practice nurses (APNs) and nurse specialists in Korea …

Nurses in critical ill setting as ICU mostly use physical restraints to maintain the patients'
devices and therapy, such as endotracheal tubes, central lines, and arterial lines. Around …

Current research suggests that nursing students do not apply all sets of physical assessment
skills (PAS) learned in their nursing education. The aim of this study was to evaluate third …

Objectives This study aimed to identify barriers in performing physical assessments among
nursing students through integrative review study. Methods The literature were searched in …