Digital Clinical Experience (DCE): Health History Assessment Digital Clinical Experience (DCE): Health History Assessment A comprehensive health history is essential to providing quality care for patients across the lifespan, as it helps to properly identify health risks, diagnose patients, and develop individualized treatment plans. To effectively collect these heath histories, you must not only…
Case Study: Assessment Tools and Diagnostic Tests in Adults and Children Case Study: Assessment Tools and Diagnostic Tests in Adults and Children When seeking to identify a patient’s health condition, advanced practice nurses can use a diverse selection of diagnostic tests and assessment tools; however, different factors affect the validity and reliability of the results…
Assessment Tools, Diagnostics, Growth, Measurement, and Nutrition in Adults and Children Assessment Tools, Diagnostics, Growth, Measurement, and Nutrition in Adults and Children Many experts predict that genetic testing for disease susceptibility is well on its way to becoming a routine part of clinical care. Yet many of the genetic tests currently being developed are, in…
Discussion: Diversity and Health Assessments Discussion: Diversity and Health Assessments May 2012, Alice Randall wrote an article for The New York Times on the cultural factors that encouraged black women to maintain a weight above what is considered healthy. Randall explained—from her observations and her personal experience as a black woman—that many African-American communities and cultures consider…