Nursing Health Assessment

1. Overview to General Health Assessment (1-2 sentence)

2. (a)   Data are information from client's point of view including their feelings and concerns obtained through interview.

3.What are you trying to establish during the client interview?

4. A Therapeutic type of communication wherein the health care provider shows concerns and that someone is willing to give them time and attention..

5. A structured communication intended to gather subjective data.

6-9. 3 Different phases of interview

10. (a)   phase where you summarize and restate your findings.

11. After conducting the health interview, the nurse begins to measure the client's vital signs. The nurse is collecting:

• Subjective Data

• Secondary Data

• Objective Data

• Constant Data

12. After completing the health history, the nurse begins to ask more detailed questions to clarify points and ff-up and concerns expressed by the client during the interview. This portion of the health assessment is:

• complete interview

• comprehensive data

• focused interview

• subjective dat

13. During a health interview, the client states that she becomes increasingly short of breath when sitting in city traffic. The nurse views this information as:

• A Cultural factor

• Emotional factor

• External environment factor

• none of the above