NUTR 1313 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Ovulation, Enterococcus, Musical Tone

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Chapter 9 assessment techniques and the clinical setting. Cultivating your senses general survey are described in the following chapter. ) Then as you proceed through the examination, start the assessment of perception of the health state. Unit 2 describes objective data, which are the signs perceived by the examiner through the physical examination. Performing a physical examination requires technical skills and a knowledge base. The technical skills are the tools for gathering data. You will relate those data to your knowledge base and to your previous experience. The health history described in the preceding chapters provides subjective data for health assessment: the individual"s own enables you to look for, rather than merely look at. Consider a statement by the eighteenth-century poet goethe: (cid:498)we see only what we know. (cid:499) to recognize a significant finding, you need to know what to look for. You use your senses sight, smell, touch, and hearing to gather data during the physical examination.

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Discussion: Assessing the Ears, Nose, and Throat Most ear, nose, and throat conditions that arise in non-critical care settings are minor in nature. However, subtle symptoms can sometimes escalate into life-threatening conditions that require prompt assessment and treatment. Nurses conducting assessments of the ears, nose, and throat must be able to identify the small differences between life-threatening conditions and benign ones. For instance, if a patient with a sore throat and a runny nose also has inflamed lymph nodes, the inflammation is probably due to the pathogen causing the sore throat rather than a case of throat cancer. With this knowledge and a sufficient patient health history, a nurse would not need to escalate the assessment to a biopsy or an MRI of the lymph nodes, but would probably perform a simple strep test. In this Discussion, you consider case studies of abnormal findings from patients in a clinical setting. You determine what history should be collected from the patients, what physical exams and diagnostic tests should be conducted, and formulate a differential diagnosis with several possible conditions. Note: By Day 1 of this week, your instructor will have assigned you to one of the following case studies to review for this Discussion. Also, your Discussion post should be in the SOAP Note format, rather than the traditional narrative style Discussion posting format. Refer to Chapter 2 of the Sullivan text and the Comprehensive SOAP Template in the Week 4 Learning Resources for guidance. Remember that not all comprehensive SOAP data are included in every patient case. Case 1: Nose Focused Examination Richard is a 50-year-old male with nasal congestion, sneezing, rhinorrhea, and postnasal drainage. Richard has struggled with an itchy nose, eyes, palate, and ears for 5 days. As you check his ears and throat for redness and inflammation, you notice him touch his fingers to the bridge of his nose to press and rub there. He says he's taken Mucinex OTC the past two nights to help him breathe while he sleeps. When you ask if the Mucinex has helped at all, he sneers slightly and gestures that the improvement is only minimal. Richard is alert and oriented. He has pale, boggy nasal mucosa with clear thin secretions and enlarged nasal turbinates, which obstruct airway flow but his lungs are clear. His tonsils are not enlarged but his throat is mildly erythematous. To prepare: Review this week's Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide. Consider what history would be necessary to collect from the patient. Consider what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate to gather more information about the patient's condition. How would the results be used to make a diagnosis? Identify at least 10 possible conditions that may be considered in a differential diagnosis for the patient. Note: Before you submit your initial post, replace the subject line (âWeek 5 Discussionâ) with âReview of Case Study ___,â identifying the number of the case study you were assigned. Post a description of the health history you would need to collect from the patient in the case study to which you were assigned. Explain what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate and how the results would be used to make a diagnosis. List five different possible conditions for the patient's differential diagnosis and justify why you selected each.

NUTR 1313 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Ovulation, Enterococcus, Musical Tone

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