Discuss how a nurse approaches a focused assessment versus a complete assessment. Are there differences regarding charting?
Comprehensive nursing assessment including patient history, general appearance, physical examination and vital signs. ... Focused assessment: Detailed nursing assessment of specific body system(s) relating to the presenting problem or current concern(s) of the patient.
A complete health assessment is a detailed examination that typically includes athorough health history and comprehensive head-to-toe physical exam. ... However, typically advanced practice nurses such as nurse practitioners perform complete assessments when doing annual physical examinations.
A complete assessment includes, the otoscope, thermometer, stethoscope, penlight, sphygmomanometer, bladder scanner, speculum, and eye charts. Besides the interviewing process, the nursing assessment utilizes certain techniques to collect information such as observation, auscultation, palpation and percussion.
Focused assessment: Detailed nursing assessment of specific body system(s) relating to the presenting problem or current concern(s) of the patient.
Charting of a complete examination should cover the patient's physical examination, mental examination, family history etc. but in the case of focused examination, patient's one of the diseased part is more focused. In depth knowledge and charting is need for that part.
Discuss how a nurse approaches a focused assessment versus a complete assessment. Are there differences regarding...
What are the differences in the assessment portion of a focused versus a complete assessment?
Discuss when the differences between a full head-to-toe assessment and a focused assessment is used?
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