Biopsychosocial Nursing Assessment: A Way to Enhance Care Plans

1. A psychiatric nursing assessment tool reinforces the primary nursing care model; re-establishes nursing's input at comprehensive treatment plan meeting; reorients the staff to the total nursing needs of the client; and provides a tool for establishing nursing diagnoses. 2. Implementation of the nursing assessment form has educated other staff about professional nursing practice, as well as promoted a greater understanding of the nursing process and reinforced accountability for the nurses. 3. The form enables clients to be viewed from a holistic biopsychosocial nursing context, and nursing care plan recommendations are more individualized and inclusive of the total aspects of patient needs.