NSG 2317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Health Promotion, Endocrine System, Palliative Care
22 Jan 2018
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Reason for seeing care - meet and greet, acute or chronic issues. Biographical data: name, address and phone number, age and birth date, birthplace, gender, marital status and partners" occupation, smoker, ethnocultural background, occupation; usual and present, smoking status, source of information. Reason for seeking care: a brief statement in patient"s words, using quotation marks, symptom, sign. If both spouses are there, could be both. Includes health maintenance, health promotion, or wellness needs. Current health or history of current illness: characteristics of symptom; similar to pain assessment. Pqrstu mnemonic: p provocative or palliative, q quality or quantity, r region or radiation; where is it, has it evolved or moved or radiation to. What makes it better: t timing; when did this start, u understanding patient"s perception; explain what it feels like etc. Family history: age and health or cause of death of blood relatives (a&w, health of close family members (spouse, children) (a&w) alive and well.
