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NU 220 HEALTH ASSESSMENT FOR NURSING PRACTICE EXAM 2024/2025 (UAB)
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- NU 220
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- University Of Alabama - Birmingham
NU 220 HEALTH ASSESSMENT FOR NURSING PRACTICE EXAM 2024/2025 (UAB)
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NU 220 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMNU 220 HEALTH ASSESSMENT FOR NURSING
PRACTICE EXAM 2024/2025 (UAB)
What is health assessment?
A point of entry, collection of data to formulate a database from which to:
-form diagnoses
-plan interventions
-measure evaluations
What is the nursing process?
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
start collecting data
make decisions based on assessment
>what we are gonna do to help the patient
plan and implement
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check if they are working by evaluation
Forms of Documentation
Narrative format - information provided in sentences, usually time sequenced
SOAP
PIE
FOCUS
Charting by Exception
Clinical Pathways
SOAP
subjective - everything the patient says
objective - everything the nurse observes
assessment - evaluation (nursing diagnosis/judgement)
plan - what you're going to do
Subjective info to be collected
-HPI [history of present illness]
-ROS [review of systems]
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Signs and symptoms
Symptom - patient experience/what a patient is feeling
>abbreviated as Sx [Sx bar] [w + bar over x] or S/Sx
Sign - what is found/the nursing diagnosis
Organization of note
-general to specific
-highlight remarkable findings
>remarkable means "of note"
>remarkable to unremarkable
4 components of exam
Inspection - what you see
Palpation - what you feel thru touch
Percussion - what you feel/hear thru vibration
Auscultate - what you hear
Inspection
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-general
-detailed
-requires good lighting
-other tools
>penlight
>magnifying glass
>measuring tape/ruler
-ophthalmoscope, otoscope
-specula
Palpation
-temperature
-tenderness
-texture
-moisture
-rigidity/flaccidity
-strength
-masses
-crepitation: creaky-ness
percussion
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