MDT Assessment Tools

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At present I am involved in an MDT working party looking into encouraging the whole team to work in a consistent and identified way. Each discipline has the task of looking at an assessment tool specifically used in their area. I appear to be the only member of this team who cannot find any identified assessment tools due to being a psychiatric nurse. There are numerous tools used by OTs, medics, Psychologist, etc. However, although nurses historically use the assessment procedures, I can't find any tools which scientifically show any changes in mental state. All assessments appear to be based on nursing models and are very much down to the person's judgement. Can you help?

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