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Nurse Contributions to Daily Rounds.

Kristen E Pecanac¹, Mariah Larson¹, Kristin Merss¹

¹School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA.

Western Journal of Nursing Research

|June 10, 2026

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Summary

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Nurses primarily provide information during family-centered rounds but can act as advocates. They sometimes hesitate to ask questions when prompted, despite opportunities to contribute valuable insights.

Keywords:

hospital medicine interdisciplinary communication physician–nurse relations qualitative research teaching rounds

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Area of Science:

Pediatric Healthcare
Nursing Practice
Communication in Medicine

Background:

Healthcare institutions vary in their patient rounding models.
Nurses' participation and involvement in daily rounds can be inconsistent.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze nurses' specific contributions during family-centered rounds in a pediatric hospital setting.

Main Methods:

Secondary analysis of 50 video-recorded patient-clinician conversations during daily rounds.
Utilized conversation and content analysis to categorize nurse utterances and their functions.
Focused on data from four pediatric medical teams at a Midwest children's hospital.

Main Results:

Nurses commonly provided information and assessments during rounds.

Nurses actively made recommendations and corrected misinformation.

Nurses asked clarifying questions for themselves and families, but often declined opportunities to ask questions when prompted at the end of discussions.

Conclusions:

The typical role of nurses in rounds involves information sharing, with less frequent questioning.
Nurses demonstrated advocacy by posing questions to the medical team on behalf of patients and families.