It is most essential that the nurse use skillful interviewing techniques while completing a health assessment of the skin, hair, and nails in order to:
1. Explore and investigate each symptom.
2. Gain the client's trust.
3. Discard unimportant data.
4. Speed up the interview.
Explore and investigate each symptom.
Rationale: Each symptom identified should be thoroughly described in order for the nurse to gain a full understanding. The nurse may ask the client questions such as, "Tell me more about the problem," or "How did the problem start?" These types of questions will usually prompt the client to proceed with further information about the symptoms. Skillful interviewing techniques may gain the client's trust, discard unimportant data, and speed up the interview, but these are not as important as exploring and investigating symptoms.
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