NUR 2092 Health Assessment Final Exam Study Guide

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NUR 2092 Health Assessment Final Exam Study Guide •Barriers to communication—the ten traps of interviewing- providing false assurance or reassurance, giving unwanted advice, using authority, us... ing avoidance language, engaging in distancing, using professional jargon, using leading or biased questions, talking too much, interrupting, using why questions oBlaming, patronizing, false reassurance, failure to listen, changing the subject or topic •Tips for assessing children under age 5: •What occurs in each step of the nursing process: oAssessment oDiagnosis oOutcome identification oPlanning oImplementation oEvaluation •Open ended questions: ask for a narrative response use in following situations: to begin interview, introduce new section of interview, whenever the patient introduces a new topic •Closed ended questions: ask for apecific information, use in following situations: after opening narrative questions, when you need specific facts about past health problems, to move interview along. These are yes and no questions •Subjective Data vs objective data: •Signs vs symptoms: symptoms are subjective sensation person feels from disorder, what a person says is reason for seeking care is recorded and enclosed in quotation marks to indicate persons exact words. Signs are objective abnormally that can be detected on physical examination or in lab reports [Show More]

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