holistic health Flashcards
health asessment
evalution of the health tatus by taking a health history and performing physical exam
why is health assessment important
fundation skill for nurses, provides families, patient, and other members with relevant, timely and appropriatre care
complete health assessment
complete health history and resuts od a full physical exam
episodic/problem centered assessment
limited or short term problem
follow up assessment
monitors short-term or chronic problems
emergerncy assessment
rapid collecton of data, often compiled while life saving measures are occuring
point of critical thinking skills
- promotes patient health by assesing risk fcators and assessing social context
- sets priorities
- idenitfy expected outcomes
prioritiziing care
- life threatening
2.urgent
3.normal vs adnormal
- relevance and clustering of data
when using critical thinking watch for…
- assumptions
- incosistenics
- missing info
how to use in everyday nursing
-set priorities for your day and organize your workload
- deciding which client to see first, who is most important
critical thinking, judgment annd health assessment importance
able to conduct health assessments, and physical exams in a respectful and accepting mannor
health promotion: development and concept
- shift from infection to chronic
- consider physical and social enviroment
primary prevention
health promotion and disease prevention, prevents people from being sick
secondary prevention
refers to early detection of disease before symptoms emerge
tertiary prevention
referes to prevention of complication when dieseae is present
