Özet:

Evaluating the current health status of individuals and the risks related to their health status, the specificity of these evaluations to the individual is related to the effective use of physical assessment methods in nursing care. While objective data on the patient's physiological state can obtain with physical evaluation, it can also confirm subjective data obtained with the patient's health history. Therefore, with physical evaluation, can prepare individual-specific care plans, and nursing care quality can increase. In this context, intensive care nurses frequently use physical assessment methods at the diagnostic stage of the nursing process. Therefore, intensive care nurses need to make effective and correct physical evaluations of patients in the intensive care unit to increase individualized patient care results. For this purpose, nurses need to use concept maps to provide effective and accurate patient care in complex units such as intensive care. It knows that concept maps have essential effects such as clinical decision making, critical thinking, and improving communication skills in inpatient care. In this review, although the importance of physical assessment in nursing care emphasizes, it is aimed to present the information that will guide nurses to the physical evaluation of intensive care patients and provide convenience in care in a systematic format with a concept map.

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