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NU 220 HEALTH ASSESSMENT FOR NURSING
PRACTICE EXAM 2024/2025 (UAB)



What is health assessment?

A point of entry, collection of data to formulate a database from which to:

-form diagnoses

-plan interventions

-measure evaluations




What is the nursing process?

Assessment

Diagnosis

Planning

Implementation

Evaluation



start collecting data

make decisions based on assessment

>what we are gonna do to help the patient

plan and implement

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check if they are working by evaluation




Forms of Documentation

Narrative format - information provided in sentences, usually time sequenced

SOAP

PIE

FOCUS

Charting by Exception

Clinical Pathways




SOAP

subjective - everything the patient says

objective - everything the nurse observes

assessment - evaluation (nursing diagnosis/judgement)

plan - what you're going to do




Subjective info to be collected

-HPI [history of present illness]

-ROS [review of systems]

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Signs and symptoms

Symptom - patient experience/what a patient is feeling

>abbreviated as Sx [Sx bar] [w + bar over x] or S/Sx



Sign - what is found/the nursing diagnosis




Organization of note

-general to specific

-highlight remarkable findings

>remarkable means "of note"

>remarkable to unremarkable




4 components of exam

Inspection - what you see

Palpation - what you feel thru touch

Percussion - what you feel/hear thru vibration

Auscultate - what you hear




Inspection

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-general

-detailed

-requires good lighting

-other tools

>penlight

>magnifying glass

>measuring tape/ruler

-ophthalmoscope, otoscope

-specula




Palpation

-temperature

-tenderness

-texture

-moisture

-rigidity/flaccidity

-strength

-masses

-crepitation: creaky-ness




percussion

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