Nursing Guides
PHYSICAL/HEALTH ASSESSMENT Assessment is a core activity of nursing practice. It includes gathering information about the health status of a patient/client, analyzing/inspecting and interpreting the data and deciding how to use the information in the patient's plan of care, and evaluating the quality of the plan of care. It also includes assessing community, or population and using the information in planning and delivering care.
***How has your practice in nursing enabled you to apply the principles of Physical/Health Assessment and Health Education? Provide examples. Nursing assessment is considered to be vital and fundamental in the delivery of nursing care. Considered as the first step of the Nursing Process, assessment is the basis of the interventions and health education that will be provided to our patients. This is a skill that each and every nurse must master so as to provide quality care to our patients. This skill includes gathering of health history through interview as well as review of medical records and a comprehensive physical examination with the use of our clinical eyes.
Assessment can be applied anywhere and the best example wherein Assessment is critical is in the Emergency Room. This is where we admit patients therefore our assessment will be essential to the health care providers.
***Scenario: (briefly describe and experience from your nursing practice)
I was assigned to the emergency room. As an Emergency Room nurse, you must be able to determine urgency of a patient’s condition so proper prioritization could be done. There are a lot of admissions on that day. A patient was rushed into the department because of abdominal pain and was catered by a medical intern. Upon history taking, it was found out that patient ate 3 mangoes and consumed a bottle of soda early morning of that day. With that, the medical intern considered the case as less urgent, advised patient to take a rest first and catered other patients as there
***How has your practice in nursing enabled you to apply the principles of Physical/Health Assessment and Health Education? Provide examples. Nursing assessment is considered to be vital and fundamental in the delivery of nursing care. Considered as the first step of the Nursing Process, assessment is the basis of the interventions and health education that will be provided to our patients. This is a skill that each and every nurse must master so as to provide quality care to our patients. This skill includes gathering of health history through interview as well as review of medical records and a comprehensive physical examination with the use of our clinical eyes.
Assessment can be applied anywhere and the best example wherein Assessment is critical is in the Emergency Room. This is where we admit patients therefore our assessment will be essential to the health care providers.
***Scenario: (briefly describe and experience from your nursing practice)
I was assigned to the emergency room. As an Emergency Room nurse, you must be able to determine urgency of a patient’s condition so proper prioritization could be done. There are a lot of admissions on that day. A patient was rushed into the department because of abdominal pain and was catered by a medical intern. Upon history taking, it was found out that patient ate 3 mangoes and consumed a bottle of soda early morning of that day. With that, the medical intern considered the case as less urgent, advised patient to take a rest first and catered other patients as there