Essay NU610-7B Unit 4 Discussion – Focused vs. Comprehensive Assessment Herzing

Essay NU610-7B Unit 4 Discussion – Focused vs. Comprehensive Assessment Herzing

NU610-7B Unit 4 Discussion – Focused vs. Comprehensive Assessment Herzing

Initial Discussion Question/Prompt

Discussion post for this week, please take the following descriptive information and place it with the appropriate categories listed. Based on the descriptive information would this be a focused or comprehensive assessment and if focused what system or systems would you want to assess and why?

Descriptions

• Presents with c/o headache
• Pain is a ‘4’ on a scale of 1-10
• Scoliosis corrected with Charleston brace, broken toe
• No cold/sinus symptoms
• Eye exam 2 years ago
• No medications, NKDA
• No hospitalizations
• No tobacco use, wine once monthly, no recreational drug use
• Single, lives alone
• Traveled to UK, Caribbean in past 3 months
• Throbbing for past 2 hours, can feel pulse in temple
• Sports-induced asthma
• No fever, no changes in vision

Categories

• Chief Complaint
• History of Present Illness
• Past Medical History
• Personal and Social History
• Review of Symptoms

Discussion Peer/Participation Prompt

Instructions:

Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s posts.  To ensure that your responses are substantive, use at least two of these prompts:

• Do you agree with your peers’ assessment?
• Take an opposing view to a peer and present a logical argument supporting an alternate opinion.
• Share your thoughts on how you support their opinion and explain why.
• Present new references that support your opinions.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with in-text citations and corresponding references in APA format.

Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.