Intro to Health Review

What is the purpose of Health Assessment?

• Make a judgement about client needs.

• Evaluate Response to treatment

• Determine Priorities for Care

• All of Above

Assessment provides cures to make judgement. What is the judgement from Picture?

• Person has an injured finger

• Lab is drawing blood

• Person is diabetic

• Person bites their nails.

Based on this info, what additional data do you need?

• Do they take medication?

• Do they modify their diet?

• How often do they check their blood sugar?

• All of the above

Accurate assessment allows nurse to do which of the following

• Establish rapport

• Identify prioirities

• Communicate effectively

• Pass this course.

What does gathering additional data based on cues promote

• Waste time

• Poor assessment techniques

• Evaluate hypothesis/judgement

• Maintain competency for licensing

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-5

What level of priority requires assessing circulation, airway, breathing ( CAB)

• FIrst

• Second

• Third

• CPR

Why is attaining baseline assessment important?

• Helps identify deterioration of health

• Ensures client receives care required for health

• Helps identify improvement of health

• All of the above