HESI Health Assessment Study Guide

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History Taking Child • Biographic Data: Include the child's name, nickname, address and phone number, parents' names and work numbers, child's age and birth date, birthplace, sex, race, ethnic or... igin, and information about other children and family members at home. • Source of History: 1. Person providing information and relation to child 2. Your impression of reliability of information 3. Any special circumstances (e.g., the use of an interpreter) • Reason for Seeking Care: Record the parent's spontaneous statement. Because of the frequency of well-child visits for routine health care, there will be more reasons such as “time for the child's checkup” or “she needs the next baby shot.” Reasons for health problems may be initiated by the child, the parent, or a third party such as a classroom teacher or social worker. Sometimes the reason stated may not be the real reason for the visit. A parent may have a “hidden agenda,” such as the mother who brought her 4-yearold child in because “she looked pale.” Further questioning revealed that the mother had heard recently from a former college friend whose 4-year-old child had just been diagnosed with leukemia. [Show More]

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