A Method of Sharing the Intention of Reviewing in Writing-Training for Nurses

Abstract

The Problem Oriented System (POS), SOAP, and Focus Charting are popular methods of recording nursing activities as a way to improve collaborative nursing practices. However, explicit training methods for what and how nurses should write these recording systems for their nursing have not been sufficiently established. In regard to such trainings, we consider that a tutor’s thinking process is more important than the actual thinking result (e.g., a comment document). Our approach is to express tutor’s intention of teaching as a map in order to develop an educational tool that can be used in trainings on what and how to think in recording their activities. This paper presents an overview of the reviewing tool we developed, which provides tags as criteria of a tutor’s judgment. We have confirmed that, at least, the proposed method does not hinder a tutor’s review of a nurse’s case writing.