A Guide to Developing Nursing Grand Rounds Nursing

conducted to explore whether serving food affects participation in medical grand rounds. The case study format is a presentation style that is regaining favor in both medical grand rounds and NGRs. Presenting a case study of a particular patient enables nurses to systematically examine a specific patient’s episode of care, review the pathophysiology, evaluate the nursing care provided, and relate the “doing” of nursing care to evidence and science. It further allows nurses to extrapolate nursing care measures that colleagues can apply to their nursing practice. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of NGRs guided by a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) at a large, tertiary-care hospital and to provide a template for implementation of NGRs at other hospitals.