Summary Flashcards
6 steps to an assessment
-Health History
-Subjective data
-Physcial exam
-Objective data
-Documentation
-Analys data
Assessment
Collect data: review clinical record, healthh history, physical exam, functional assessment, risk assessment, review literature
-Evidence based, document
Diagnos
-Compare clinical findings with normal and abnormal variation and development event
-Interpret clusters, hypothesis, test, derive
-validate
-document
Outcome identification
-Identify expected outcome
-individualize to the person
-culturally appropriate
-realistic
-timeline
Planning
-Establish priority
-develop outcome
-set timeline for outcome
-ID interventions
-Integrate evidence based trends
-document plan of care
Implement
-Safe and timely
-Use evidence based interventions
-collaborate with colleagues
-use community resources
-coordinate care delivery
-rpovide health teaching and health promotion
- document implementation and any modification
Evaluate
progress toward outcome
-conduct systematic on going
-include patient and significant others
-Iuse ongoing assessment to revise diagnosis, outcomes and plan
-disseminate results to patient and family
Types of health assessments
emergency, focused on issue and condition, comprehensive assessment broad and wide ranging
Emergency Assessment
carries out in life threatening situations
-follows ABCD (airway breathing circulation disability)
Comprehensive assessment
includes complete health history subjective and physical examianation
-various settings
-inpatient admission
-head to tow
Focused assessment
based on patients presenting health issues
-less extensive than comprehensive 1-2 body systems involved
-in depth info solicited is entered on presenting health problems
Preparation for assessment
-Explain
-gather equipment
-HH
-Promotes comfort, dignity and safety
-head to toes
Subjective data
Biographical data
Reason for seeking care
Present health or history of present illness
Past history (medical, surgical, medications)
Family history
Review of systems
Functional assessment or activities of daily living (ADLs)
first thing to do in head to tow
60 sec and general survey
What to do after 60 sec and general survey
take vitals, weight, height, BMI, snellen, use bathroom (patent is still clothed)
When patient is seated perform
skin, head and face, ear, nose, mouth and through, neck, chest, upper extremities
when supine
check breast, heat, abdomen, inguinal area, lower extremities
What is subjective data?
Data that is told to us by our patients
What is objective data?
Data that is collected by observation
in pain assessment O stands for
onset (when did the pain start what were you doing)
In pain assessment what does the P stand for
provocative/pallative (does this pain increase or decrease when doing specific things)
What does the R stand for in the pain assessment
region (where is it hurting)