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Exam 1 Study Guide

Unit 1

The 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

Types of assessments

Emergency – Life-threatening/unstable

oAirway, breathing, circulation

Comprehensive - Broad and complete, complete health history and physical assessment

General survey - Begins immediately upon meeting the patient and continues

throughout the assessment

oNo measurements are done

Focused – Based on patient’s health issues (what they are in for)

oKnee injury  assess the knee

Levels of intervention to promote healthy change

Primary – Preventing problems

oImmunizations, health teaching, safety precautions

Secondary – Screening to promote the early diagnosis of health problems

oVision screening, pap smears, BP screening, TB testing

Tertiary – Focuses on preventing complications of an existing disease and promoting

health to the highest level

oMedication, surgical treatment, physical therapy

Assessment frameworks

Functional – Focuses on the functional patterns that all human share

oHealth 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 – Most organized system for gathering comprehensive physical data

Body Systems Approach – Tool for organizing data when documenting and

communicating findings

Communication process

Verbal – Exchange of information using spoken or written word

Nonverbal – Transmission of information without the use of words

Electronic – Electronic medical record, email

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Exam 1 study guide

Health Assessment (NSG 121)

Herzing University

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