NSG 325 Pediatrics Week 2 Quiz _2022/2023 | NSG325 Pediatrics Week 2 Quiz_Graded A+

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NSG 325 Pediatrics Week 2 Quiz 1. What data is collected verbally (interview) during the health assessment? The nurse will collect and organize health, medical and personal-social history to plan a... child’s nursing care (Ball, 2017). The nurse will verbally collect the child’s chief concern and document the parent’s or child’s exact words. The nurse will also obtain a detailed description of the child’s present injury or illness. The current the health status, such as medications the child is taking, any allergies, what immunizations has the child been given, if any, the child’s sleep patterns, the child’s eating patterns and what they eat, and what type of activities do they do. The nurse will also verbally obtain psychosocial date such as family composition (marital status, families members that live at home, etc), financial resources ( household members employed, family income, or healthcare resources, such as insurance), home environment (condition, city, sanitation, etc), community environment (neighborhood, transportation, safety playgrounds, etc), and family or lifestyle changes (divorces, recent unemployment, relocations, etc) (Ball, 2017). 2. How is history of present illness collected? It is collected based on a detailed description of the current health problem that includes the characteristics of the problem, such as onset, type of symptom, duration, severity, influencing factors, past evaluation for the problem, and previous and current treatment (Ball, 2017). 3. What is a review of symptoms? What are the parts? The onset would be did it happen suddenly or gradually, have you had previous episodes, what is the date and time that your symptoms began? Type of symptom would be do you have pain, itching, runny nose, vomiting, etc? Location would be where exactly is your pain- stomach, foot, head? Duration would be like are your symptoms continuous or do they come and go? And for how long do they last? Severity would be like how bad are these symptoms? Do they interrupt your sleep, do they decrease you appetite, etc? Influencing factors would be like what relieves or worsens your symptoms, what [Show More]

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