Advanced Adult Health Nursing N-260

After reviewing your skills in assessment, let's practice on an actual adult client in your chosen setting. 

You will need to practice a complete assessment of one (1) adult patient with an existing medical condition. Your assessment documentation will be part of your Portfolio.

Guidelines:

1. Select one (1) patient from your current practice setting. Secure their informed consent to participate as your patient.
2. Use the forms provided (Nursing Health History and Physical Assessment). You may use other forms based on existing guidelines depending on the condition of your patient (e.g., Dyspnea scale for COPD, Functional Ability Scale).
3. Conduct a complete Nursing Health History.
4. Perform a complete physical assessment.
5. Use an appropriate Risk Factor Assessment tool (e.g., Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Screening, STEPwise approach to NCD screening, etc.) and incorporate this in your overall Health Assessment.
6. [Optional] Present your client's latest lab results, if any, and their medication list.
7. Create a document presenting the summary of your pertinent findings.
8. Submit these in the Assignment Bin for feedback using the file name [SURNAME_ICF], [SURNAME_NHH], [SURNAME_PE], [SURNAME_RFA], [SURNAME_Lab and Meds], [SURNAME_Assessment Summary]

Evaluation:  You will be evaluated based on the completeness and accuracy of your documentation. Likewise, the synthesis of your findings will be evaluated in terms of its ability to highlight the priority needs of your patients.

Note:  Please submit by March 3, 5:00 PM so we can have a brief discussion about your output on our March 6 Synchronous session.