Nursing Assessment

Flowchart nodes

• Assessments

• Health history

• Physical

• Types of Data and sources of data

• Allergic reaction

• Culture

• Observe nonverbal cues

• inspect are of discomfort, palpate for tenderness

• Medication

• Patient's Habits

• LIfe style patterns

• Subjective and objective

• Subj. is patients' verbal descriptions of their health

• Objective is what you observe during the assesment

• A. PatientB. Health care team.c. Medical records.

• Observe if patient demonstrate nonverbal signs of pain during movement, positioning, swallowing