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NSG 121 Health Health Assessment Questions and answers
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NSG 121 Health Health AssessmentThe Nurse's role in health assessment - ✅✅ -To promote health, to
prevent illness, to treat human responses to health or illness, to
advocate for individual, families, communities, and populations
Type of assessments: Emergency - ✅✅-Life-threatening/unstable
Airway, breathing, circulation
Type of assessment: Comprehensive - ✅✅ -- Broad and complete,
complete health history and physical assessment
Type of Assessment: General survey - ✅✅ -Begins immediately upon
meeting the patient and continues throughout the assessment; no
measurement are done
Type of Assessment: Focused - ✅✅-Based on patient's health issues
(what they are in for)
knee injury assess the knee
primary intervention -✅✅ -an intervention that occurs before the onset
of the disease ; Immunizations, health teaching, safety precautions
Secondary Intervention - ✅✅ -Screening to promote the early diagnosis
of health problems ;Vision screening, pap smears, BP screening, TB
testing
Tertiary Assessment - ✅✅ -Focuses on preventing complications of
existing disease and promoting health to the highest level ; Medication,
surgical treatment, physical therapy
Functional Assessment - ✅✅ -Focuses on the functional patterns that
all humans share ; Health perception, activity and exercise, nutrition and
metabolism, sleep and
rest, cognition and perception, self-perception and self-concept, roles
and
relationships, stress tolerance, values, and beliefs, sexuality and
reproduction
, Head to toe assessment - ✅✅
-Most organized system for gathering
comprehensive physical data.
Body Systems Approach - ✅✅-Tool for organizing data when
documenting and
communicating findings
Verbal Communication - ✅✅-Exchange of information using spoken or
written word
nonverbal communication - ✅✅ -communication using body
movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech
electronic communication - ✅✅ -System for the transmission of
information using electronic technology (e.g., digital cameras, cellular
telephones, Internet, television, fiber optics).
Sender - ✅✅-the originator of the message in the communication
process
Receiver -✅✅-the person who receives the message
Understanding - ✅✅-was the message understood
Caring - ✅✅-displaying kindness and concern for others,
encompasses your empathy and connection with patient
perception (communication process) - ✅✅ -- process of being aware of
and understanding
- involves selection, organization and interpretation
- based on variety of factors
empathy - ✅✅-the ability to understand and share the feelings of
another
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