FOCUS CHARTING OR

F-DAR CHARTING
Intended to make the client and client
concerns and strengths the focus of care.

Method of organizing health information

in an individual’s record.

A systematic approach to documentation.

 FOCUS CHARTING PARTS
Three columns are usually used in Focus Charting for documentation:

 Date/Hour
 Focus
 Progress Notes

The Progress Notes are organized into (D) data, (A) action, and (R)
response, which is referred to DAR as third column.
 FOCUS DATA, ACTION &
RESPONSE
09/28/2021 D > __________________________
7AM-2:30PM __________________________
__________________________
9:00AM ___________________________
A>
___________________________
__________________________

R> ___________________________
___________________________
 THE PROGRESS NOTES
FOCUS
The focus might be a nursing
diagnosis, patient’s problem,
change in patient's condition, or
any significant event.
 Nursing Diagnosis
 It is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community
experiences/responses to actual or potential health
problems/life processes.
 It is developed based on data obtained during the nursing
assessment, it is the “label” when nurses assign meaning to
collected data appropriately labeled with NANDA-approved
nursing diagnosis.
 refers to one of many diagnoses in the classification system
established and approved by NANDA.
TYPES OF NURSING
DIAGNOSIS
How to Write a Nursing
Diagnosis?