Focused Exam- Abdominal Pain | reflection.

5/28/2018 Focused Exam: Abdominal Pain | Completed | Shadow Health Focused Exam: Abdominal Pain Results | Turned In Advanced Health Assessment - Chamberlain, NR509-April-2018 Return to Assignment Your Results LLaabb PPaassss Self-Reflection Activity Time: 4 min Explicitly describe the tasks you undertook to complete this exam. Student Response: The use of my critical thinking skills in order to come to a conclusion due to the process of elimination. Re-evaluation of some of Miss. Park's lifestyle and habits. Complete abdominal exam. Consisting of chief complaint, present medical history other than what we already knew due to chart history. History of present illness, reviewing the system of the abdominal pain. It took me longer than expected due to very difficult with Shadow health logging me out at least twice this time. Obtaining objective and subjective data. Along with inspection, and evaluation of abdominal assessment such as inspection, palpation, percussion gave us a better insight on miss Park. Explain the clinical reasoning behind your decisions and tasks. Student Response: in order to rule out anything other than fecal impaction, the steps had to be followed for an abdominal exam. Trying to maximize my time with the patient in order to come to a conclusion of a diagnosis. based on the assessment gaining the ability to complete a proper abdominal exam and document any normal and abnormal findings. used all data collection to establish a diagnosis, assessment, and plan for the patient. Identify how your performance could be improved and how you can apply “lessons learned” within the assignment to your professional nursing practice. Student Response: As the weeks go by and we continue with shadow health I become more comfortable with asking patient questions or when to ask questions, when to empathize and educate. It is becoming more apparent that correctly documenting all data obtained and accurately will provide the best outcome not only for our practice but for the patients. Overview Transcript Subjective Data Collection Objective Data Collection Education & Empathy Documentation Self-Reflection This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :33:01 GMT -06:00 5/28/2018 Focused Exam: Abdominal Pain | Completed | Shadow Health Comments If your instructor provides individual feedback on this assignment, it will appear here. © Shadow Health 2018 ® This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :33:01 GMT -06:00