HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND PROMOTION IN NURSING PRACTICE

Abstract

Although health assessments are performed regularly and routinely, they must be conducted and documented with great thoroughness and attention to detail. Nursing assessments inform each step of the patient’s care plan. Therefore, nurses have a tremendous responsibility to ensure they have the necessary skill sets to perform accurate evaluations for all patients. The article outlines main types of health assessment, that are included into the course of studies Health Assessment, which is aimed at development of systemic knowledge and understanding of conceptual foundations by students utilizing systematic history taking and the knowledge of therapeutic communication to elicit subjective data; collecting objective data; validating, analyzing and documentation of those data. Holistic health assessment is viewed from a health promotion, cultural, nutritional, mental health and developmental perspective. During this course students identify appropriate methods of data collection to conduct a multidimensional systemic screening health assessment on clients across the lifespan. Health Assessment is one of the main courses for students studying at I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Training program “Nursing”, the first (bachelor) degree of higher education, branch of knowledge 00 “22 Health Care”, specialty 223 “Nursing”.