A Nursing Case Study is collection of vital information about a patient, written by a nurse for other nurses, physician, and any other medical staff who is involved in providing the nursing care to the patient. Case Study can be termed as an effective means of communication between nurse and other medical personnel involved in the caring of the patient.

In Health Care Centers or Nursing schools and other nursing institutes, Nursing Case Study is often used to train new nurses, as well as nursing students, for research purposes, nursing education up gradation, introduction of new equipments and so on. Few specific case studies are even published in medical journals and magazines as a research topic. When case study is presented to other nursing or medical staffs, on few occasions, even patient is invited to attend the presentation.

Case Study is used for different purposes including:

1. By a registered nurse, who prepares Case study about a patient, working together with doctors, physicians of the patient and presented to family members, other nurses, rehabilitation staff, and so on.
2. When the patient is transferred to another nursing home or health care center or when the patient is discharged from the hospital and goes back to his home. In such cases, Case Study is provided to other nurses and medical staff of that health care center or family members of the patient, showing the status of patient’s health, his present condition and informs them about present and future need of the patient.
3. In Nursing Schools and Nursing educational institute’s case study is presented to educate and make the medical students familiar with different aspects of nursing care to the patients. Student nurses even have the subject on case study, which they have to prepare on a patient. Nursing instructors uses case study to evaluate nursing competency of the student.
4. Case Studies are also used for degree programs and continuing advance education. In such cases, Case Study is mainly used for academic or research purposes. They are even published in journals and magazines.

Nursing Case Study basically includes:

• Topic (based in reality and relevant)
• Objective
• Introduction
• Integration of more history and background
• Questions for analysis and critical thinking
• Feedback (Informational and reinforcing)
• References

Thus, Nursing Case Study prepared with these points provides in-depth knowledge about the patient’s condition, situation and other vital information about the patient, which are essential for effective nursing care of the patient.