The nurse is performing a health assessment on client. Which of the following
would be most important for the nurse to do?
Interpret the information about the client in context
Data that nurses collect during a physical assessment vary depending on a
patient's
acuity, health history, and c...
✓ Physiologic, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual
data
A 26-year-old male nurse is assessing a 14-year-old girl newly admitted to
the pediatric unit. The nurse knows that an efficient assessment framework
that provides additional modesty for the patient is what?
✓ head to toe
A nurse is conducting a health assessment. How will the information collected
from the patient be used?
✓ as a basis for the nursing process
the difference between medical examination and nursing assessment
✓ ME- treatment of disease process
NP- human response to the disease
When asked to assess an area of broken skin on an older adult client in a
long-term care facility, the nurse notes a break in the skin erythema and a
small amount of serosanguineous drainage over the sacrum. The area
appears blister-like. The nurse would interpret this finding as indicating which
stage of pressure ulcer?
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