Mobility Assessment
The nurse will ask the patient whether they needed assistance with various Activities of Daily Living (ADL) such as bathing, walking across the room, personal grooming, eating, dressing, getting into a chair or out of bed, and toileting. Banner Mobility Assessment Tool (BMAT) for nurses will be used to assess Jean’s mobility. BMAT is a crucial assessment tool that was developed during multi-hospital SPHM implementation, with the primary aims of addressing the limitations of existing tools (Perme & Chandrashekar, 2009).
The primary purpose of the BMAT will be to instruct and direct the nurse on how to guide the patient through the four-stage functional activity list so that they can identify the level of mobility the patient can achieve. The nurse will apply the assessment to find out the level of patient’s movement such as Mobility Level I. The nurse will further recommend tools and equipment required by the patient to mobilize, lift, and transfer safely. BMAT will be crucial, given the fact that it was developed from a deconstruction of two existing assessment and recreating tools, including four functional task levels (Perme & Chandrashekar, 2010). Also, building on the Quick 3, the device provides additional assessment level that can be used to examine mobility while standing, which is considered as the third step of the Egress Test (Perme & Chandrashekar, 2010).