Question

15. Knowing the components of Nursing Health History, please identify what kind of

data is the Nursing Health History? Explain why?

16. What are the methods in order to collect objective data?

17. What are the methods in order to subjective data?

18. How to organize data?

19. How to validate data?

Answer 1

Ans) 15) The health history is a current collection of organized information unique to an individual. Relevant aspects of the history include biographical, demographic, physical, mental, emotional, sociocultural, sexual, and spiritual data.

16) Objective data are observable and measurable data (“signs”) obtained through observation, physical examination, and laboratory and diagnostic testing.

- It can be collected through interviews, surveys, observation, testing, or other methods. Qualitative research gathers information that is not in numerical form. Example: Diary accounts, open-ended questionnaires, unstructured interviews and unstructured observations.

17) Subjective data are information from the client's point of view (“symptoms”), including feelings, perceptions, and concerns obtained through interviews.

- Subjective data is gathered from the patient telling you something that you cannot use your five senses to measure. If a patient tells you they have had diarrhea for the past two days, that is subjective, you cannot know that information any other way besides being told that is what happened.

18) When gathering data, whether qualitative or quantitative, we can use several tools, such as: surveys, focus groups, interviews, and questionnaires. To help organize data, we can use charts and graphs to help visualize what's going on, such as bar graphs, frequency charts, picture graphs, and line graphs.

19) Steps to data validation:
Step 1: Determine data sample. Determine the data to sample.
Step 2: Validate the database. Before you move your data, you need to ensure that all the required data is present in your existing database.
Step 3: Validate the data format