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5 types of nursing assessments? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔*Comprehensive initial:
Performed shortly after the patient is admitted to a health care agency or service.
Establishes base data.
*Focused:
Nurse gathers data about a specific condition that has already been diagnosed or
previously missed.
*Emergency
Performed during a physiologic or psychological crisis.
,*Time-lapsed
Compares a patient's current status to baseline data obtained earlier.
*Assessment of communities and special populations
Critical thinking activities linked to assessment? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔*Assessing
medical concerns.
*Detect bias.
*Determine credibility.
*Distinguish and identify abnormal findings.
*Making judgements about data.
*Identify assumptions, inconsistencies, accuracies, reliability, and recognizing
missing information.
What are the characteristics of nursing assessments? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔*Purposeful
*Prioritized
*Complete
*Systematic
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, *Factual and accurate
*Relevant
*Recorded in a standard manner
A nursing assessment duplicates a medical assessment
by focusing on the patient's responses to the health
problem? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
Who is the primary source of information? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Patient
Which type of assessment would be performed on a patient to gather data about his
previously diagnosed liver cancer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Focused assessment
What is a medical assessment? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Goal is to target data pointing to
pathologic conditions.
What is a nursing assessment? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Goal is to record data pertaining
to patient's response to health problems.
A patient rates his pain as a "7" on a pain rating scale. Is this rating is considered to
be objective data? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No. It is subjective.
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