The nurse is completing a preoperative assessment on a client. The nurse understands that which of the following is the most important reason to complete a thorough assessment?
1. The data provide information and guidance for the preoperative and postoperative teachings.
2. The potential risks are identified for the family, to comfort them in case there is a bad outcome from surgery.
3. The assessment data can be used to help plan for a future residential care institution.
4. The data provide information to use for the health care provider's history and physical.
The data provide information and guidance for the preoperative and postoperative teachings
Rationale: The assessment data can be utilized to help guide the client's preoperative and postoperative teaching. The assessment also provides information regarding potential health risks perioperatively as well as baseline data for physical and functional abilities during the client's recovery, not for the family's comfort during the surgery. The assessment data can be utilized at a residential care facility, but that is not the primary reason for completing assessment data. A health care provider's history and physical may utilize some data from the nursing assessment, but the health care provider must also complete his or her own history/physical.
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