The nurse begins a shift assessment by examining a surgical dressing that is saturated with serosanguineous drainage on a patient who had open abdominal surgery yesterday (or 1 day ago)
The nurse is performing what type of assessment approach in this situation? a. Comprehensive assessment using Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
b. General to specific assessment
c. Activity-exercise pattern assessment
d. Problem-oriented assessment
D
The nurse is not doing a complete, general assessment and then focusing on specific problem areas. Instead, the nurse focuses immediately on the problem at hand and performs a problem-oriented assessment. Utilizing Gordon's Functional Health Patterns is an example of a structured database-type assessment technique. The nurse in this question is performing a specific problem-oriented assessment approach. The nurse is not performing an activity-exercise pattern assessment in this question.
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