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NURS 301 Health Assessment Exam 1 Focus Topics Spring 2019

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NURS 301 Health Assessment Exam 1 Focus Topics Spring 2019 NURS 301 Health Assessment Exam 1 Focus Topics to Review Exam 1 will cover Chapters 1 to 5, Chapters 8, 9, 13, 14, 19, 23 Exam Items: 50... multiple-choice, True or False Topics: Explain the purpose of a nursing health assessment Purpose of nursing health assessment = collect holistic subjective and objective data to determine a client’s overall level of functioning to professional clinical judgment. \\ the main idea is something we should understand. This was a question about the test. Clinical judgment. *Holistic data collected* by the nurse from the client during a nursing health assessment = - Physiologic - Psychological - Sociocultural - Developmental - spiritual data \\ Compare and contrast medical assessment from nursing health assessment. Holistic nursing assessment = Collects holistic subjective and objective data to determine a client’s overall level of functioning in order to make a professional clinical judgment \\ the nurse assesses during nursing health assessments = how clients interact within their family and community, and how the clients’ health status affects the family and community. Ex. a diabetic client may not be able to eat the same foods that the rest of the family enjoys \ \ Physical medical assessment = Focuses primarily on the client’s physiologic development status \\ - there is a question that in which you are doing a physical on a patient and she tells you that “the doc already did this”, what would you tell her? It’s not that both the nurse and the doc are just as important and we will collaborate together to determine your order. It is literally the highlighted above just put into one sentence. [Show More]

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