Thank you for your comment. What type of unit do you work on? I suggest that patient goal identification should be initiated with the admission, then review and adjust if necessary with each round. With complicated cases, a separate meeting with the patient, family, caregivers, and professionals involved in their care can be useful to set up collaborative goals and review progress.

Perhaps a section can be created on the admission sheet for patient goals. A binder with a sheet set up for each patient could be used for rounds. You can create a form (with your organization’s approval) that is customized to the needs of the client population on your unit.

It sounds like you are an innovative person. Good luck with your project.

Shelly

I found your this blog post very interesting. I am doing research on patient centered goals for the hospital I am currently working at and I was trying to find examples of tools being used elsewhere to assess patient goals. There is interest in starting to include the patient’s goals in our rounds but no one has really seen it done and so I’m trying to get some guidance on how that could work in our setting. Do you have any documentation or tools you could share?

Thanks!

Mathieu
Yarmouth, Canada