health asses chapt 4

Question 1

comprehensive health history

Answer 1

new patients, provides fundamental and personal knowledge, strengthens relationship, baseline, platform for health promotion

Question 2

focused

Answer 2

usually returning patients, routine or urgent care, focused concerns or symptoms, assess systems restricted to specific body system

Question 3

follow up history

Answer 3

always follow up with patient, dont just go off charts from previous shifts.. evaluate problem and treatment

Question 4

emergency history

Answer 4

focused on emergent problem

Question 5

parts to a comprehensive adult health history
(know what each are)

Answer 5

identify source and data, chief complaint, history of present illness, past history, family history, review of systems, health patterns

Question 6

past history

Answer 6

allergies, medications, childhood illnesses, adult illnesses(medical, surgical, accidents, pyschiatric), immunizations, screening tests, safety measures(helmets, fire dectors), risk factors( tabacoo, environmental, substance absue, alcohol)