Assignment 1: Holistic Health Assessment
Professional Practice Experience 1 - Holistic Health Assessment.
Gender: Female Age: 26
Assessment area
Findings
Physical/biological
Speech.
Mrs.Akter Tamina can communicate properly and very efficiently. She can speak fluently without any interruption with words and rhythm, in moderate velocity and without shortness of breath. She can respond without any confusion. She can manage daily activities herself and can recollect all recent activities (Lewis & Foley, 2011).
Breathing. I found her breaths 14 per minute. Adult normal breathing rate 12 to 20
per minute (Dempsey, Hillege & Hill, 2014). Compared with the standard,
her breathing is normal …show more content…
Participates in lots of social activities with her family and
friends. She is a regular participant of a fitness centre. She is
religious person that makes her more confident about life.
Environmental
Living/work conditions. Living in a two storied house a beautiful location and easy to access all
amenities. She worked as a full time dental nurse with a satisfactory
environment and earned good money which contributes to health and
wellness.
Access to health services.
Has good access to her health care provider. It takes
only few a minutes to go there without any problem. All kinds of health
services are available from that health provider.
Identified Health risk factors. I found that there are some health risks factors such as obesity, hypertension. In addition she had some family history of disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure. As the number of risk factors increase so does the possibility of illness. Six major risk factors for illness are age, genetic factors, physiological factors, Health habits, lifestyle, environment (Dempsey, Hillege & Hill, 2014). Among
Gender: Female Age: 26
Assessment area
Findings
Physical/biological
Speech.
Mrs.Akter Tamina can communicate properly and very efficiently. She can speak fluently without any interruption with words and rhythm, in moderate velocity and without shortness of breath. She can respond without any confusion. She can manage daily activities herself and can recollect all recent activities (Lewis & Foley, 2011).
Breathing. I found her breaths 14 per minute. Adult normal breathing rate 12 to 20
per minute (Dempsey, Hillege & Hill, 2014). Compared with the standard,
her breathing is normal …show more content…
Participates in lots of social activities with her family and
friends. She is a regular participant of a fitness centre. She is
religious person that makes her more confident about life.
Environmental
Living/work conditions. Living in a two storied house a beautiful location and easy to access all
amenities. She worked as a full time dental nurse with a satisfactory
environment and earned good money which contributes to health and
wellness.
Access to health services.
Has good access to her health care provider. It takes
only few a minutes to go there without any problem. All kinds of health
services are available from that health provider.
Identified Health risk factors. I found that there are some health risks factors such as obesity, hypertension. In addition she had some family history of disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure. As the number of risk factors increase so does the possibility of illness. Six major risk factors for illness are age, genetic factors, physiological factors, Health habits, lifestyle, environment (Dempsey, Hillege & Hill, 2014). Among