Health and assessment
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- Assessment
- the collection of data about an individuals health state
- Biomedical model
- the Western European North American tradition that view health as the absence of disease
- Complete data base
- a complete health history and full physical examination
- Critical Thinking
- simultaneously problem-solving while self improving one's own thinking ability.
- Diagnostic reasoning
- a method of collecting and analyzing clinical information with the following comonents:1.attending to initially available cues 2.formulating dx hypotheses 3. gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses 4. evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, arriving at a final dagnosis.
- Emergency data base
- rapid collection of the data base often compiled concurrently with life saving measure.
- Enviroment
- the toal of all the conditions and elements thta make up the surroundings and influence the development of a person
- episodic data base
- one used for a limited or short term problem concerns maily one problem one cue complex or one body system
- follow up data base
- used in all settings to monitor progress on short term or chronic health problems
- holistic health
- the view that the mind body and spirit are interdependent and function as a whole with in the enviroment
- medial diagnosis
- used to evaluate the cause and etiology of disease forcus is on the funtion or malfuntion of a specific organ system
- nursing diagnosis
- used to evaluate the response of the whole person to actual or potential health problems
- nursing process
- a method of collectin and analyzing clinical information with the following components 1.assessment 2. diagnosis 3. outcome identification 4. planing 5. implementation 6. evaluation
- objective data
- what the health professional observes by inspection palpating percussing and ausculation during the physical examination
- prevention
- any action directed toward promoting health and preventing the occurence of disease
- subjective data
- what the person says about himself during history taking
- wellness
- a dynamic process and view of health. a move toward optimal funtioning