NSE 11A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Innate Immune System, Mucous Membrane, Perspiration
25 Aug 2016
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Week 2: nursing process & the roy adaptation model. 4&6, rdat: discuss methods for data collection. A patient"s verbal description of their health problems. Only a patient can provide subjective data. Includes feelings, percepton and self-report: objective data. Collection of objective data is based on an accepted standard, i. e. celsius, mm of mercury. Apply critical thinking while collecting objective data. Clients who are conscious and alert will provide most accurate information. Consider setting of assessment: family and significant others. Primary sources for infants children, critically ill adults, mentally handicapped or unconscious clients: health care team. Frequent communication with other health care team members can be used to share info about the client. Information may include how the client responds and interacts with the health care environment: medical records. Source of client"s history, lab results, current physical findings. Records offers baseline for client"s response to illness. Valuable for checking consistencies of personal observations: literature.
