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Nurses have a pivotal role in the early identification of patients at risk of deterioration through the taking of patient observations and assessment. This paper presents the findings from an ethnographic qualitative study to discover the practice of recording basic observations of general ward patients and discusses how these observations are used in the assessment of the physical state of the patient...