Purposeful Nurse Rounding: A Review of the Evidence: Veterans' Health Administration Office of Nursing Service Evidence-Based Practice Field Advisory Committee

An evidence synthesis was conducted on purposeful rounding (PR). PR remains poorly defined and may increase staff workload. PR may improve patient satisfaction and falls. There is no conclusive evidence that PR significantly improves patient safety or quality of care. Keywords: rounding, purposeful rounding, patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, nurse outcomes, nurse workload
Purposeful rounding (PR) as a practice has been reported in the nursing literature for at least 15 years, but there is no standard definition (Hutchinson et al., 2017; Ryan et [...]