Head to toe assessment of an adult participant
Debriefing the Week 6 Head to Toe Assessment Assignment
THE ASSIGNMENT
In Week 6 you demonstrated a head to toe assessment of an adult participant. This week you and your classmates will reflect on physical assessment in your own nursing practice, and on the assessment you performed for your video assignment.
Please consider the following in your initial post:
Share how physical assessment is performed in your practice area. How do you determine what type of physical assessment is appropriate in caring for your patients? Do you perform complete head to toe assessments, or are they typically more focused exams? (If you do not currently work in a patient care setting, you may reflect on observations from a clinical experience or prior work setting.)
Based on your observations, do you feel that patient assessments performed in practice are as thorough as they should be? Explain your answer.
Weber, J.R. & Kelley, J.H. (2018). Health assessment in nursing (6th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
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