The nurse completes a comprehensive health assessment with a client. This assessment is completed so that when future assessments are made they can be:
1. incorporated into the initial assessment.
2. considered a new baseline.
3. compared to the initial assessment.
4. disregarded.
3
The comprehensive health assessment contains the full health history and physical assessment. This initial assessment is the baseline for future assessment and is used as a comparison. A comprehensive assessment is the initial assessment. Future assessments are not considered the new baseline. Future assessments will not be disregarded.
You might also like to view...
The nurse is responsible for maintaining intact skin for the compromised client. Appropriate nursing priorities include:(Select all that apply) Standard Text: Select all that apply
1. Checking pressure points regularly 2. Regular turning and repositioning schedules 3. Strict precautions to provide clean care to the wound 4. Delegation to unlicensed assistive personnel 5. Documenting care given
The criterion of authenticity concerns whether the researchers have been creative and innovative in their conceptualizations of the phenomenon under study
A) True B) False
Which statement, made by a staff nurse, would the nurse manager evaluate as evidence of good understanding of the importance of the electronic medical record?
1. "Since nurses are the only ones using this system, I won't have to wait to document anymore." 2. "I'm glad that it will take less time for us to document." 3. "I hope we don't have to keep changing passwords." 4. "They say that our patient care will improve while we are using this system."
When you bring in the next dose of a drug that a patient first received 6 hours ago, the patient reports a "pounding" heart rate ever since taking the last dose. What is your best first action?
a. Document the report as the only action. b. Check the patient's vital signs for changes. c. Hold the dose and notify the prescriber immediately. d. Reassure the patient that this is an expected response to the drug.