4.8 Key Takeaways
Key Takeaways
- Four types of health assessment include primary survey, focused assessment, head-to-toe, and complete health assessment.
- The ABCCS assessment (Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Consciousness, Safety) is the first assessment to do when meeting a patient.
- Objective assessment involves collecting observable and measurable data about the client’s health.
- Your assessment of cues, both subjective and objective, will help determine which data need further investigation.
- Critical thinking about assessment findings is important.
- Sound clinical judgment requires nurses to be competent in recognizing and interpreting cues as prerequisites for addressing identified problems.
- The order of physical assessment techniques is generally: inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.
- Nurses and health care team members are legally required to document care provided to patients.
- As a health care professional, you have an important role in infection prevention and control practices. Clients, care partners, and visitors also have a role. Nurses should educate them on appropriate IPAC measures.
