Chapter 10 * Flashcards
What is health history?
A comprehensive record of the client’s past and current health.
When is the heath history taken?
During the initial health assessment interview, which usually occurs at the client’s first visit to a healthcare facility.
What is included in a patients health history?
A wellness assessment covering questions on how the client optimizes health and well-being in such areas as nutrition, stress management, and social interactions.
T/F The health history performed by the nurse has a different focus from the medial history performed by the physician.
True
Both consists of subjective data, the focus of the medical history is to gather data about the cause and course of disease.
Health history is subjective or objective?
Subjective
What is communication?
The exchange of information between individuals.
What is encoding?
The process of formulating a message for transmission to another person.
Interactional skills include?
- Listening
- Attending
- Paraphrasing
- Leading
- Questioning
- Reflecting
- Summarizing
What is listening?
Paying UNDIVIDED attention to what the client says and does.
When you are attending to a client what are you doing?
Giving full attention to verbal and nonverbal messages.
What is paraphrasing?
Restating the clients basic message
What is leading?
Used to encourage open communication
What is questioning?
Direct way of speaking with clients to obtain subjecting data for decision making and planning care.
What is reflecting?
Repeating the client’s verbal or nonverbal message for the client’s benefit to show that the nurse has empathy with the client’s thoughts, feelings, or experiences.
What is summarizing?
The process of gathering the ideas, feelings,and themes that clients have discussed throughout the interview and restating them in several general statements.
Name ways a nurse could create barriers that hinder the flow of information.
- False reassurance
- Interrupting or changing the subject
- Passing judgment
- cross-exmination
- technical terms
- sensitive issues
What is false reassurance?
Occurs when the nurse assures the client of a positive outcome with no basis for believing in it.
By interrupting or subject changing the nurse could show…
Insensitivity to the client’s thoughts and feeling and may occur when the nurse is not comfortable with the conversation .
Passing Judgement conveys messages to clients that…
they are not meeting the nurse’s values.
Explain cross-examination and what may happen if the nurse does this.
Asking questions during the interview may cause the client to feel threatened and reveal information.
Why should technical terminology be avoided?
Technical terminology should be avoided, as well as jargon, slang, or clinches, to facilitate client understanding.