Tag: Assessment
Specific health assessment refers to an assessment of a specific problem and it may be the initial assessment or an ongoing assessment. A specific assessment is problem oriented, it focuses on a specific problem and not a general health.
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Community Health Assessment of a Virtual City
Nursing Assignments
This is a community health assessment of a virtual city called Sentinel City. As the location of this city is unknown a direct comparison to other cities is impossible to perform. The city...
Last modified: 9th Jun 2020
Complex Adult Health Needs Assessment
Nursing Assignments
Background Information Patient J. H. is an 84-year-old African American female. Past medical history includes upper gastrointestinal bleeding, hyperlipidemia, Cerebral Vascular Accident in the cereb...
Last modified: 3rd Jun 2020
Genogram and Ecomap for Family Nursing Assessment
Nursing Assignments
Introduction A genogram depicts inter-generational family maps to provide a picture of what is occurring across families and across generations, providing a broad framework with which to view family, ...
Last modified: 22nd May 2020
Holistic Assessment of Client in Psychiatric Unit
Nursing Case Studies
Holistic Assessment of Client in the Psychiatric Unit of North Vista Hospital Purpose This student assessed an 85-year-old female diagnosed with neurocognitive disorder with behavioral disturbances. T...
Last modified: 21st May 2020
Patient Health and Well-being Assessment
Nursing Essays
The purpose of this essay is to focus on the health and wellbeing of the patient that was observed during the writer’s placement, and to Illustrate an understanding of health and wellbeing, the anat...
Last modified: 20th May 2020
ABCDE Structure Assessment of Patient with Cystic Fibrosis
Nursing Essays
The ABCDE structured assessment will be discussed throughout this essay. The ABCDE approach is a tool which Healthcare Professionals use to assess a deteriorating patient quickly and effectively. The ...
Last modified: 11th May 2020
Significance of Assessment in Adult Nursing
Nursing Essays
The following essay will highlight the significance of assessment in the field of adult nursing. It will bring out issues on when and to what degree it is carried out working on examples and structure...
Last modified: 4th May 2020
Reflective Account of a Nursing Assessment of a New Admission
Reflective Essays
Reflective account of a nursing assessment of a new admission INTRODUCTION This essay is going to reflect upon the care that was provided to Patient A, a 16-year-old with a diagnosis of self-harm an...
Last modified: 1st May 2020
Nursing Student Medication Administration Performance: A Longitudinal Assessment and Randomized Trial
Nursing Case Studies
The study was a longitudinal, descriptive experimental two group pretest posttest design. Nursing students were randomly assigned to an ISE or a traditional practice session when they learned the skill of medication administration....
Last modified: 30th Apr 2020
Case Study And A Oncology Health Assessment
Nursing Case Studies
This case study concerns a patient, Mrs. Singh who is diagnosed with stomach cancer and is being managed with chemotherapy. Mrs. Singh, a 78yr. old female, presents to the oncology center with the chi...
Last modified: 13th Feb 2020
Case Study Of A Functional Health Pattern Assessment Nursing Essay
Nursing Case Studies
The following Functional Health Pattern assessment is based on a 65 year old Scottish woman who lives independently with her husband in their home at Happy Valley. The purpose of the interview was exp...
Last modified: 13th Feb 2020
This reflective essay is centred on pain assessment
Reflective Essays
For the purpose of the case study I intend to use Gibbs(1998) model of reflection as this model is clear, precise allowing for description, analysis and evaluation of the experience, then prompts the...
Last modified: 13th Feb 2020
Reflective Assessment on Communicative Nursing
Reflective Essays
Explain why communication is important in nursing and using a reflective framework, describe how communication skills were used in practice specifically related to the use of the nursing process. In...
Last modified: 12th Feb 2020
Nursing Reflection Essay - Skills Assessment
Reflective Essays
According to the New Collins International Dictionary of the English language, a reflection is to reflect or to be in the state of reflection. (Collins & Brash, 1983) In this essay, I aim to give...
Last modified: 12th Feb 2020
Case Study: Patient Needs Assessments
Nursing Case Studies
Introduction As part of the FETAC Level 5 Major Award in Healthcare Support the author was asked to do this assignment on Care Skills covering all aspects of caring for a confused person. The model o...
Last modified: 12th Feb 2020
Case Study: Health History Assessment
Nursing Case Studies
Introduction According to (D’Amico, 2011), health assessment to be a patient means the systematic way of collecting client’s data, with an aim of determining his/her current health status, th...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Physical Examinations for Assessment | Case Studies
Nursing Case Studies
Jon Teegardin A thorough assessment of a patients head, eyes, ears, neck, and throat can reveal a wealth of objective information that is useful in developing nursing diagnoses. Careful attention t...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Patient Case Studies for Accurate Nursing Assessments
Nursing Case Studies
Jon Teegardin Performing accurate nursing assessments on patients establishes a baseline of information regarding a patient’s complaint and history of present illness. The patients represented in...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Family Health Assessment Case Study
Nursing Case Studies
Rubina Malik Family health assessment is important to learn about the individual’s family and life style. Being a nurse it is important for me to know various dynamics of individual’s behavi...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Literature Review of Pain Assessment Tools
Nursing Literature Reviews
Introduction This essay will identify the issue of poorly addressed acute pain in hospitalized patients and critically compare and discusses a range of pain assessment tools referring to contemporary...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Operating Theatre Practice Reflective Assessment
Reflective Essays
Activity 1 Register nurses who work in the operation theatre where they are trained to care patient before, during and after surgery. There they gain both classroom learning and hands on experience. ...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Pressure Ulcer Assessment and Management | Reflection
Reflective Essays
Chitse Wheeler Albon Description The purpose of this reflection is to contemplate on the critical incident that brought to my attention regarding the pressure ulcer assessment and management of sta...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
The importance of person centred care in patient assessments
Nursing Questions
Question Discuss the importance of assessment in the nursing process demonstrating person centred care Answer Assessment is the first step in the nursing process and refers to the systematic method of...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Health Assessment Care plan for Bladder Cancer Patient
Nursing Essays
Theresa is a 37 year old; who was diagnosed with bladder cancer. She recently commenced her course of chemotherapy .She rushes to the Emergency Room at 11.45pm complaining of having a fever. Introduct...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Emergency assessment and management of diabetic ketoacidosis
Nursing Essays
Diabetic Ketoacidosis: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is developed due to deficiency in insulin which is moving all over the body. DKA is developed in the body due to depletion of water r and electrolyte...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
