Description
Week 1 Health Assessment Skills
Total Points Possible
This Collaboration Café is worth a total of 50 points.
Preparing the Collaboration Café
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Abide by Chamberlain University’s academic integrity policy. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Directions
Collaboration Café: Reflect on Knowledge
Step 1:Reflect on your current health assessment skills and understanding of the importance of health assessment in client care.
Step 2:Answer all questions below with explanations and detail. No scholarly sources are required.
Paragraph one:Briefly describe the type(s) of health assessments you typically perform now or have performed in the past. Explain the setting and why the type of assessment was appropriate.
Paragraph two:Describe a personal experience where effective health assessment skills significantly impacted your client’s care. Discuss what you learned about the importance of health assessment from this experience.
Paragraph three:Share your thoughts on the importance of accurate and thorough documentation of health assessments. Describe the situation where documentation was crucial in client care or communication among healthcare providers.
Solution
Health assessments play a critical role in providing safe and effective client care. My practice depends on the requisite needs of health experiences each patient demands out of me. I conduct either a broad or a narrowed assessment. Complete assessments including physical assessment, medical history, vital signs testing and examination findings and psychology factors’ evaluation are done during first experience with patients. Treating patients with certain medical problems or relevant changes in their condition involves specialized ‘focused’ assessments by healthcare providers. In working in the acute care setting, I performed respiratory evaluations of shortness of breath patients by performance of breast sounds screening and oxygen saturation measurement as well as assessed breathing difficulty.
One experience that underscored the importance of adequate health assessment involved a patient who presented with vague complaints of fatigue and dizziness. The patient had been checked up by the comprehensive medical tests including blood pressure check in rest and stand conditions, and heart checks which proved that the patient suffered from heart failure………………….Purchase the full solution for $5
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