Physical Health Assessment
Nursing: Physical and Health Assessment
While Maria has been working around the clock and walking an hour daily to campus, there might be something more to the pounds addition. As a nurse, additional information that would be important to gather from Maria is to ask her if she is under stress. The reason why I would ask Maria this question is because “stress is linked to weight gain since a high degree of the stress hormone cortisol has been proved to increase appetite, cause junk food cravings, and make it so much easy to accumulate fat in the belly” (Sass, 2014).
The real and potential health risks that Maria can have are being overweight and having obesity which may increase “several health dangers such as diabetes, certain cancers, and
While Maria has been working around the clock and walking an hour daily to campus, there might be something more to the pounds addition. As a nurse, additional information that would be important to gather from Maria is to ask her if she is under stress. The reason why I would ask Maria this question is because “stress is linked to weight gain since a high degree of the stress hormone cortisol has been proved to increase appetite, cause junk food cravings, and make it so much easy to accumulate fat in the belly” (Sass, 2014).
The real and potential health risks that Maria can have are being overweight and having obesity which may increase “several health dangers such as diabetes, certain cancers, and