Patient assessment skills

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Patient assessment skills

• Petra Pavlicová
• Lenka Sochorová

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• In an assessment the nurse must use all of his or
  her senses.
• These include hearing, touching, visual, and
  therapeutic communication
• In other words, assessing a patient from head to
  toe.

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• A nurse must have all the necessary equipment,
  such as a scale, tape measure, thermometer,
  sphygmomanometer, a stethoscope and pen light.

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• The setting is also very important in doing an
  assessment.
• If a client is nervous or anxious they may not be
  as willing to answer questions that the nurse
  asks or to be examined.

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• Obtaining a quiet environment is not always
  possible, especially in an emergency situation.
• Therefore, the nurse must be very observant, and
  try to get as much pertinent data as possible to
  formulate an nursing diagnosis.

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The Canaan Lane Campus
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Lesson of patient assessment skills
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Students during lesson
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Students are practising resuscitation
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