S O A P note - ✔✔a method of documentation employed by health care providers to write out notes in a patient's chart
Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan
A B C D skin lesion assessment - ✔✔Asymmetry
Border irr
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S O A P note - ✔✔a method of documentation employed by health care providers to write out notes in a patient's chart
Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan
A B C D skin lesion assessment - ✔✔Asymmetry
Border irregularity
Color isn't uniform
Diameter >6cm (pencil eraser)
Evolving size, shape and color
Preferred qualities of a first impression - ✔✔honesty, candor, openness, flexibility, eager, explanatory, open to questions
patient centered care - ✔✔providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions
4 C's of effective communication - ✔✔courtesy
comfort
connection
confirmation
Open ended questions goal - ✔✔patient's description of answer
direct question goal - ✔✔seeking specific information
Leading question goal - ✔✔Limiting information to one focus / subject
Reasons patients avoid the full story of the illness - ✔✔dementia, alcoholism, illness, sexual uncertainties, domestic violence, child abuse
Potential Barriers to Communication - ✔✔- Curiosity about you
- Anxiety
- Silence
- Depression
- Crying and Compassionate Moments
- Seduction
- Anger
- Financial Considerations
2 goals of a patient history - ✔✔1. identify what the patient's problem is
2. establish reliability of the patient
Why is it important to complete a review of systems after a history? - ✔✔to identify complementary or symptoms that may seem unrelated
Tips when discussing a sensitive topic - ✔✔provide privacy, direct & firm, no apologies, no judgement, avoid confrontation, no jargon, document carefully
4 steps in approaching the examination of sensitive areas - ✔✔1. introduction & why
2. open ended questions to explore pt's feelings
3. repeat what's been said & give feedback
4. take questions from pt
TACE questions - ✔✔Does it *T*ake more than two drinks to get you drunk?
Have people *A*nnoyed you by criticizing your drinking?
Have you ever felt you ought to *C*ut down on your drinking?
Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves (*E*ye opener)?
Partner Violence Screen - ✔✔Have you been hit, kicked, punched or otherwise hurt by someone within the past year?
Do you feel safe in your current relationship?
Is there a partner from a previous relationship who is making you feel unsafe now?
HITS tool - ✔✔Hurt
Insult
Threaten
Scream
*for intimate partner violence
FICA tool for spiritual assessment - ✔✔Faith, belief, meaning
Importance & influence
Community
Action in care
Sexuality History Goal - ✔✔identify risk factors for unintentional pregnancy or STIs
5 P's of sexual history - ✔✔Partners
Prevention of pregnancy
Protection from STIs
Practices
Past history of STIs
Functional Assessment - ✔✔screens the safety of independent living and ability to perform ADLs, the need for home health services, and quality of life
Functional assessment questions - ✔✔mobility, upper extremity function, housework, instrumental ADLs
pediatric triad - ✔✔practitioner, parent & child
Consent by proxy - ✔✔process by which people with legal right to consent to a medical treatment for themselves or for a minor/ward delegates that right to another person
developmental milestone examples - ✔✔holds head erect, stands alone, rolls over, walks alone, sits alone, uses words, talks in sentences, dresses self, age of potty training, dentition, pubertal development
HEEADSSS TOOL - ✔✔Home
Education and employment
Eating
Activities
Drugs
Sexuality
Suicide and depression
Safety
**adolescent screening tool
PACES TOOL - ✔✔parents / peers
accidents
cigarettes
emotional issues
school / sexuality
**adolescent screening tool
fraility - ✔✔>80 y/o;; ^ loss of physical function & independence, decreased physical reserve
diagnostics - ✔✔tests that need performed or ordered to develop a plan of care
PAMI list - ✔✔Patient's medical problems
Allergies with reaction
Medications with doses
Instructions of how administered / immunizations
OLD CARTS - ✔✔Onset
Location
Duration
Characteristics
Aggravating and Alleviating Factors
Related Symptoms
Temporal factors -- frequency & occurance
Severity
Sensitive Patient health information - ✔✔HIV status
substance abuse
mental health conditions
Terms to describe current condition status - ✔✔stable
uncontrolled
resovled
cranial nerves - ✔✔12 pairs of nerves that carry messages to and from the brain
Cranial Nerve 1 - ✔✔Olfactory (smell)
Cranial Nerve 2 - ✔✔Optic nerve (visual acuity)
Cranial Nerve 3, 4, 6 - ✔✔oculomotor, trochlear, abducens - pupillary response and eye movement
Cranial Nerve 5 - ✔✔Trigeminal - corneal reflex, biting
Cranial Nerve 7 - ✔✔facial nerve -- raise eye brows, close eyes, smile, shows teeth
Cranial Nerve 8 - ✔✔Acoustic/ Vestibulocochlear- Hearing and Balance
Cranial Nerve 9, 10 - ✔✔glossopharyngeal and vagus -- swallowing, gag reflex, speech
Cranial nerve 11 - ✔✔Spinal accessory--
shrug shoulders and turn head
Cranial nerve 12 - ✔✔Hypoglossal- stick tongue out
Grading Muscle Strength - ✔✔0: None; 1: Slight contractility; 2: Full without gravity; 3: Full with gravity; 4: Full with small resisitance; 5: Full with full resistance
Grading reflexes - ✔✔0: None; 1: Diminished, 2: Normal, 3: Hyperactive, 4: Hyperactive + Clonus
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