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Advanced Health Assessment Case Study

   

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Advanced Health Asessment
Case Study

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Description of case study.............................................................................................................3
Past Medical History....................................................................................................................3
Nursing assessment......................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Advance health assessment is the systematic procedure for analysing and evaluating the
physical, mental and each functional areas of the patient health from where an individual can get
the proper treatment in definite manner (Kim, Cho, Kim and et.al., (2018). This assessment area
includes all the diagnostic practices to identify the health status of the patient and can provide
them an actual better treatment and care. The present report will illustrate the identification of the
particular two health assessment area which is based on the given case study. The report will also
discuss the health priorities of individual person who is mentioned in the given case study report.
MAIN BODY
Description of case study
In the given case study report, a 16year old adolescent has been suffering form the health
issues where it becomes important to present her at the emergency department. Her name is
Cammy, and had a history of 3 days, where she is suffering from an abdominal pain and nausea.
An abdominal pain feels between the chest and groin and nearby stomach region or belly where a
severe pain develops suddenly and requires an emergency care. Looking at Cammy's medical
history, there is no previous surgical of important medical history apart from painful
mensuration. Whenever, Cammy feels a severe pain during her menses, she manages it with
using the naproxen sodium tablets directly from the chemist without consulting a doctor and
specialist (Li, Mah, Swami, Pope, Hannon and et.al., (2019). The mentioned drug is commonly
used for reducing the fever and relieving a mild pain from the headaches, muscle ache, common
cold, backache and even tooth aches along with mensuration pain as well. It is a powerful
painkiller in general, where Cammy used this drug or tablets during her periods to feel relieve
from the major stomach pain. The vital signs on the presentation has included the heat rates,
blood pressure, pain scale and score, oxygen saturations and such more.
Past Medical History
The past medical history of a 16-year-old girl Cammy, reflects her abdominal pain
condition and also suffering from nausea where there is no such significant operational health
history has been founded in the medical report. She only takes some medicines name naproxen
sodium while she feels pain during her periods to reduce the pain where this drug is only a
common pain killer for severe pain. Her hear rate is 100 beat/minute which means it is higher
than the normal HR which is 72 beat/minute and respiratory rate is 20per minute where the

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