NR548 Week 4
2024/2025 Initial assessment: the psychiatric history - correct answer ✔-chief complaint
-history of present illness (HPI)
-psychiatric hx
-medical hx
-family hx
-social & developmental hx
Comprehensive Health History - correct answer ✔-Chief Complaint
-History of Present Illness
-Past Medical History
-Medications and Allergies
-Family History
-Personal and Social History
-Review of Systems
chief complaint - correct answer ✔client's reason for seeking treatment or evaluation
-Using the client's own words
• even if improbable or nonsensical, conveys valuable information about the client's capacity for self-observation and insight.
HPI - correct answer ✔history of the present illness
-concise, clear, and chronological description of the chief complaint which prompted the client's visit
• details what the client believes to be causing the present symptoms
-guided by the mnemonic "OLDCARTS"