NURS 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nursing Process, Health Assessment, Critical Thinking
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Jarvis: physical examination & health assessment, 2nd canadian. This section discusses key points about assessment and critical thinking. Assessment is the collection of subjective and objective data about a patient"s health. o o. Subjective data consist of information provided by the affected individual. Objective data include information obtained by the health care provider through physical assessment, the patient"s record, and laboratory studies. The database is the totality of information available about the patient. The purpose of assessment is to make a judgement or diagnosis. Diagnostic reasoning is the process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses. This process has four major components: o o o o. Attending to initially available cues, which are pieces of information, signs, symptoms, or laboratory data; Formulating diagnostic hypotheses, which are tentative explanations for a cue or a set of cues and can serve as a basis for further investigation;