Question

you will be examining your perceptions of the nurse in the role of collecting and assessing information. please answer the following questions. Make sure you spend some time thinking about the answers to these questions before writing.

1. What have you learned so far in this course that will help you conduct effective health assessments?
2. What skills do you have you gained?
3. Describe any areas that are still unclear and ways you will gain clarity.

Answer 1

The things which was learnt to conduct the effective health assessment starts with the complete history of the patient which includes all the aspects to determine, once the complete history collection is over the health assessment can be forwarded which includes the Head to toe examination and systemic examination. This health assessment has 4 components inspection which makes the observer note the changes from the patient, palpation which analyses and finds any sort of enlargement, texture, elasticity of the body, percussion reflects on what is been present internally or any abnormal fluid collection, auscultation helps to identify the sounds which will help to identify any abnormalities. Once this is done to make the health assessment more effective the data collection has to be accurate which includes subjective and objective data, organising the data, validating the data and documenting the data.

2.the skills which I gained is :

,* Assessment skills

* observation skills

* interviewing skills

*communication skills

* therapeutic relationship skills

* intuitions

3. The areas of being unclear is assessment of the critical thinking and judgement in the assessment so it can be clarified if more scenario based questions are been solved.