Improving the Quality of Assessment and Diagnosis in Nursing Care: A Literature Review

This research used the literature review method which began with a search for journals according to topics related to the title through online databases including Google Scholer, Pubmed, and ProQuest.The PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes) method was used to prepare the questions for this article.9 In this research, the compositions were as follows P: Nurse; I: Nursing Care; C: -; O: Quality of assessment and nursing diagnosis.The inclusion criteria included articles focused on the quality of nursing assessments and diagnoses in nursing care, applied to health institutions and services, full-text in Indonesian/English, and published in the last five years from 2018-2022.In contrast, the inclusion criteria were articles that are not the result of research, not full text, and in ABSTRACTNursing care involves a series of interactions between nurses with clients and the environment to meet their needs and ensure independence in caring for themselves.Therefore, this research aimed to examine how to improve the quality of assessments and diagnoses in nursing care.Several articles were obtained from Google Scholar, Pubmed, and ProQuest databases, while the research questions were structured using the PICO method and search keywords.The inclusion criteria included articles focused on the quality of assessments and diagnoses in nursing care, applied to health institutions and services, and published in English from 2018-2022.A total of six articles were included after thorough identification, screening, eligibility, and inclusion.The results obtained can be used to improve the quality of assessments and diagnoses in nursing care.